James Crowley C3 – Crowley Computer Consulting

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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 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  45,00.asp 45,00.asp  nline_backup_services nline_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 DeviceCloudPlugC200C400 Cost$199.00$499.00$ Drive costAdd your own 1TB to 3TB drives! Workstation agents included Cloud storage 10GB GB GB GB add on25.00 Additional considerations $199.00Server 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

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