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BACKUP EFFECTIVELY AND AUTOMATICALLY
James CrowleyC3 – Crowley Computer Consulting
Presentation
Available at www.crowleycomputers.com/ncts.html
Quiz #1
User Home Business user IT Support
Quiz #2
Expertise Novice User Afficianado
Quiz #3
Is all your data backed up? Yes No Maybe
Quiz #4
How old is your last backup? Less than a day A few days A week A month What backup?
Who should backup?
Everyone!
Corrupt Exchange email database.
Example to avoid
Accounting files lost from old server needed for tax filing.
Example to avoid
Salesperson USB key of documents stepped on and broken in half.
Example to avoid
Several years of deceased husband / father photos.
Example to avoid
18 months of lost baby pictures.
Example to avoid
Excuses for not backing up Cost It’s not important. It’s all in the cloud.
Reasons for not backing up Unimportant to user or company. Lazy. Don’t understand.
When am I supposed to rotate media? Error message? What error message? Logs? What logs?
Requirements
Scheduled Monitored Redundant
Breadth – what is getting backed up Depth – how long it is getting backed up,
versions Off site Testing
Other factors
Cost effective Automated backups
Requires no user intervention Ease of monitoring Levels
Workstation Workgroup SMB Corporate
Types of backups
Local Remote or cloud Combination
Methods
Disk to tape Disk to disk
removable external network
Disk to cloud
Selection factors
Capacity Speed
Backup Restore
Redundancy
Selection factors
Cost Startup
Software Hardware
Recurring Maintenance Recurring fees
RAID
Is RAID a backup?
Software
Not all hardware solutions will include software.
Or they may not include adequate software.
Options Agents Open File SQL databases “Other” operating systems
Software
Options Paid Included Open source
Accelerating changes
Hard drive prices dropping, tape prices stable
Cloud Reliability Cost of bandwidth and ability to backup
off peak Increased trust
Backup types
Disk to Tape
Advantages Local Redundancy Archiving Easy off site Known
Disadvantages Medium reliability Speed Cost
Disk to Disk
Advantages Medium reliability Speed Cost
Disadvantages Off site
Disk to Cloud
Advantages Startup costs Off site
Disadvantages Recurring costs Speed
Cloud Backup Options
Many choices Beware of new companies that may
not survive. Do you need to worry about
regulations? Research, preferably third party.
If it’s a year old, it’s probably wrong. Be sure the review is current.
Some Cloud Backup examples
Carbonite IDrive Mozy Norton Online
Some summaries and comparisons
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services
Limit disadvantages of any single backup system
Combination backups
D2D2T: Disk to Disk to Tape Disadvantages
Cost User intervention
D2D2C: Disk to Disk to Cloud Disadvantages
Costs Startup Recurring
Some combination options
Buffalo Technolgy TeraStation and LinkStations
Ctera Iomega iConnect and StorCenter Qnap Turbo NAS
Carbonite Home & Home Office
Single system backups start at $59 per year, unlimited data.
Files are encrypted, then transmitted Plus adds external hard drive
capability, $99 Premium adds Courier Recovery,
$149
Tray icon and menu
InfoCenter
Carbonite in Windows Explorer
Folder list File list
Carbonite in context menu
Version restore
Carbonite Business
Business $229 per year for unlimited computers,
external hard drive and NAS devices 250GB backup
BusinessPremier $599 per year plus Windows servers 500GB backup
Additional storage $46 per year for 50GB add on, $89 for
100GB
Ctera
On premises appliance Cloud based storage All in one solution
Costs
Device CloudPlug C200 C400
Cost $199.00 $499.00 $1499.00
Drive cost Add your own 1TB to 3TB drives!
Workstation agents included
10 20 50
Cloud storage
10GB 14.99 24.99 44.99
25GB 22.49 32.49 52.49
50GB 34.99 44.99 64.99
50GB add on 25.00 25.00 25.00
Additional considerations
$199.00 Server agent for Exchange, SQL Server and Active directory backup.
CloudPlug
External USB or eSATA
Capacity depends on attached drive
Recommended for up to 10 users
C200
2 bay SATA for up to 6TB internal storage
RAID 0/1 Recommended up
to 50 users
C400
4 bay SATA for up to 12TB internal storage
RAID 5/6 Recommended up
to 100 users
C800
8 bay SATA for up to 24TB internal storage
RAID 5/6 Recommended up
to 200 users
Agent icon and interface
Windows Explorer interface
Configuration
Agents
Cloud backup
Alerts
Snapshot (versions)
Other / future considerations
Mobile users Tablets and cell phones
Backup Effectively and Automatically
James CrowleyC3 – Crowley
Computer Consulting
www.crowleycomputers.com
315-394-7008
Questions?