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Sigma721

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Hi Everyone

I have a friend who is looking to backup their small business' data securely online, they have a Windows machine running basic shared folders which have to be replicated online somewhere. Does anyone have any suggestions other than the usual OneDrive/Google Drive,etc? These are highly confidential documents so security is important.

Regards
 
Do the backup on a flash drive or 3.5" drive and take it home, so if the building burns down, you still have it. This saved a hardware store nearby from folding after a fire. They still had customer records, debtors ledger and stock records

Friend who runs a bookstore uses Google Drive, quite cheap and fast
 
Thanks for the input everyone, I am looking for something automated, so that no one has to run around with portable drives,etc.

Its going to be in the region of 100Gigs, but not more than 100mb worth of changes everyday, so the initial backup will take a while, then after that small bits everyday.
 
Crashplan.com is normally voted the best.

Consider backing up to a NAS as the first step, then backing up the NAS to Crashplan as the second.
 
rrh said:
Crashplan.com is normally voted the best.

Consider backing up to a NAS as the first step, then backing up the NAS to Crashplan as the second.
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Crashplan is great, though for confidentiality, use truecrypt to encrypt before you backup.

Spideroak(.com) is a great option too, check out their "Zero Knowledge" policy.
 
rrh said:
Consider backing up to a NAS as the first step, then backing up the NAS to Crashplan as the second.
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Good idea ;)

Amazon Glacier is something else the OP can look at, it's designed specifically for scenarios like this.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.
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We have a solution that backs up to a local SA based Datacentre in Midrand using a Druva agent for R5 per Gb.
PM if you want details...
 
ponder said:
Amazon Glacier charges about 10c per GB.
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Agreed, that is an awesome price but it will be a pain trying to get the data back should a disaster occur and the info is required. Getting it out of the datacentre at $80 per hard drive and $2.49 per hour for handling time, the cost of shipping the hard drive to SA and the return shipping cost of the hard drive to Amazon. Should have you data in a couple weeks, Customs dependent.

Not sure if businesses can afford to have the downtime should they suffer a catastrophe.

Glacier is great to have an backup copy of a backup should you wish to.

Another thing to take note of is whether the other agents will backup SQL or Pervasive should Pastel or anything like that need to be backed up.

Just my thoughts.
 
Sigma721 said:
Hi Everyone

I have a friend who is looking to backup their small business' data securely online, they have a Windows machine running basic shared folders which have to be replicated online somewhere. Does anyone have any suggestions other than the usual OneDrive/Google Drive,etc? These are highly confidential documents so security is important.

Regards
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http://www.storvault.co.za
 
+ Crashplan

Use it with Pastel and it works. Backups run while you are working in Pastel without problems.


rajharie said:
Agreed, that is an awesome price but it will be a pain trying to get the data back should a disaster occur and the info is required. Getting it out of the datacentre at $80 per hard drive and $2.49 per hour for handling time, the cost of shipping the hard drive to SA and the return shipping cost of the hard drive to Amazon. Should have you data in a couple weeks, .

Another thing to take note of is whether the other agents will backup SQL or Pervasive should Pastel or anything like that need to be backed up.

Just my thoughts.
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Another option perhaps is cibecs.com.

That is if you'd consider backing up to local or remote file storage that you own.
 
No cloud backup is gonna work for the OP. 100GB is gonna take looooong to upload at the ADSL upload speeds. I tried that to Amazon Glacier. My daily backups took more than a day to upload. So there went that plan.
 
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