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I work for a retail business that pays for remote backup of their POS data and various other documents.

 

I think its time we did some shopping around because it seems that we are being charged a bit of a high rate. $23.75 per gig. but we do get 30 days of redundancy. So we could go back and restore a file from 30 days ago.

 

I looking for some user experience in this area, hopefully someone could give me a good recommendation. Here's the tech info:

 

Current company: Retail Safe Express, aka backupnation

 
  • Current Used backup: 6.31GB
  • Data: 3.63GB (101,577 files)
  • Recycle Bin: 2.68GB
  • Total Backup: 8.95GB (144,289 files)
  • Operating System: Windows 2000 Server
  • Connection Speed: 512k DSL (Yes it is very slow I know)
  • Nightly Backup at 11pm usually takes an hour to complete.
  • 30 Days of Redundancy
  • 448-bit encryption
  • Free Phone Support


So yes $23.75/gig at almost 9 gigs = $213.75 bucks a month or $2550/year Yikes! There has got to be a cheaper company.

 

We obviously don't want to give up any of the features we have, we just want a better rate.


Message edited by nowwhatnapster on 02-27-2009 at 11:18:47 PM
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Hi Mate - We use www.onlinecrypt.com - so long as you don't mind your data being backed up in the UK.
You can define any level of redundancy you like - you simply pay for what you store - we find the support and uptime to be great - pricing http://www.onlinecrypt.com/pricing/

Reply to Anonymous

With your slow connection and very small storage need, $2550 can buy a lot of thumb drives or external hd. Do auto backup on an external hard drive. Faster and cheaper. Have you had to use your online backup? Just thinking...

Reply to philbernie

[url=www.blockbackup.com][/url]I am in the same boat, slow upload speed. This is the reason I went for a solution called "online backup lite", you can find it at http://www.blockbackup.com .

The reason I went for these guys is because you can run a backup to disk send them your disk and they will transfer and send back. I only ever backup at incremental levels. This service also allows me to backup locally as well as offsite at the same time.

The other reason I chose then is they only charge 2.99 per month.

Reply to Anonymous

Microsoft SkyDrive + Gladinet @ http://www.gladinet.com/ provides 25 G of storage

Reply to foxy_roxy

Anonymous wrote :

[url=www.blockbackup.com][/url]I am in the same boat, slow upload speed. This is the reason I went for a solution called "online backup lite", you can find it at http://www.blockbackup.com .

The reason I went for these guys is because you can run a backup to disk send them your disk and they will transfer and send back. I only ever backup at incremental levels. This service also allows me to backup locally as well as offsite at the same time.

The other reason I chose then is they only charge 2.99 per month.



well this is good for you as you are getting facilitate in both ways, I will try this out very soon and thanks for the resource.


Thanks!! :)

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