Small Business People

[wambam]

What method do you use for backing up your files? How much does it cost? Do you deal with any security issues? How many computers do you have that are backed up by this method? Does it require maintenance of any kind? Are you (or someone at your company) IT-proficient enough to handle the maintenance?



We currently use a really janky/old school looking tape back up. We insert a new tape every morning. One tape is always kept off site in case of a physical disaster. Our tape deck/reader thing just kicked it, so I’m investigating alternative options.

[candyland]

Our tapes bit the dust before Christmas. We backup to a 1TB Seagate external hard drive nightly. We have a different disk for Monday through Friday. The tape from the night before goes off site.
www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-backup-plus-slim-1tb-external-usb-3-0-2-0-portable-hard-drive-black/3138005.p?id=1219088030742&skuId=3138005&pid=1219088030742&ep=pv-1.6.6,rc-av,dr-3137024,av-2.0,dv-1.0,rk-1

[wambam]

Jan 26, 2015 15:39:19 GMT -5 oceanspray said:

Carbonite. I think it's $99/year? One computer. No maintenance that I'm aware of.

I think I've heard Clark Howard talk about this lol.

[lime]

Jan 26, 2015 15:04:51 GMT -5 wambam said:

What method do you use for backing up your files?

1-We have the same 1TB hard drive a PP mentioned.
2-Our second backup is in the cloud. 
3-Third backup is at the customer site, in their cloud. 

How much does it cost?
Storage is pretty effing cheap now. 

Do you deal with any security issues?
1 - No, we haven't encrypted anything. 
2 & 3 are beyond our control but presumed to be industry standard.

How many computers do you have that are backed up by this method?
Well, we are a *really* small business, so one for each of us. 

Does it require maintenance of any kind? Are you (or someone at your company) IT-proficient enough to handle the maintenance?

Not much, really. And yes, we do that ourselves. (But as a business owner, you pretty much do everything yourselves.)

ETA - sorry the format is so wonky.

[wambam]

Jan 26, 2015 15:45:47 GMT -5 lime said:

Jan 26, 2015 15:04:51 GMT -5 wambam said:

What method do you use for backing up your files?

1-We have the same 1TB hard drive a PP mentioned.
2-Our second backup is in the cloud. 
3-Third backup is at the customer site, in their cloud. 

How much does it cost?
Storage is pretty effing cheap now. 

Do you deal with any security issues?
1 - No, we haven't encrypted anything. 
2 & 3 are beyond our control but presumed to be industry standard.

How many computers do you have that are backed up by this method?
Well, we are a *really* small business, so one for each of us. 

Does it require maintenance of any kind? Are you (or someone at your company) IT-proficient enough to handle the maintenance?

Not much, really. And yes, we do that ourselves. (But as a business owner, you pretty much do everything yourselves.)

ETA - sorry the format is so wonky.

Thanks for this. 

We are also a *very* small business - only 6 employees. Our current global drive is about 900GB though because we store so many HD microscope images. 

[candyland]

wambam they also make a 2TB external drive if 1 is not sufficient.

[lime]

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2TY1480928

So this is 12TB and only 1500$.

[wambam]

Jan 26, 2015 15:53:52 GMT -5 lime said:

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2TY1480928

So this is 12TB and only 1500$.

Oh wow. That would get us through the next several years at least. Thanks!