Remote Backup Prices
Online and offsite backup solutions are available for an average of around £15 per month. These offer secure offsite backup, internet based backup and disaster recovery solutions for companies and consumers. Features that you may look for with remote data backup services are automated daily, weekly and monthly backup, limitless data transfer, instant setup, easy restore should data loss or failure of hosting account occur, notification of the end of backup, and encrypted data transfer for security. You may want to check that you can customise and ‘push’ data backup rules to individuals and groups. Furthermore, you may want to send activity reports and view transfer logs. Some companies may offer a data restore guarantee and look for 99.99% system availability. There are options of paying by monthly direct debit or paying an annual up front fee.
Prices will vary according to the number of Gigabytes you need for storage. Whilst some companies may offer standard prices for online data backup products, there may also be an option for bespoke backup solutions too. Check that data is backed up in two replicated data centres, which means added security and availability of data.
If you have large amounts of data that you want to store offsite, you may want to try a service such as ArcHive Data Backup. This offers free software, as many copies of the software as you like, and as many backups and restores are available as you like. Support for this is free too. This works as if it is an archive account of your data that has an additional incremental backup system. This service is priced per month with a minimum charge of £25, but this includes 25GB of data upload traffic and service charge a month. Anything over the 25GB usage is charged at an incremental £1. There is no charge to restore data traffic. It is 23p per gig per month for a Terabyte account.
For a minimum cost of £25 per month GigaBackup offers secure online data backup for small to medium accounts. This cost includes 25GB of data. You can find remote backup accounts for a single user online laptop or PC. Remote data backup services such as the DataPocket allow you to secure valuable computer data, such as pictures, videos and music. The cost of backup for single computers starts at around £14 per month.
Alternatively, you can find data backup accounts that take a one off payment for your data account. Accounts can begin at 50GB and increase to the size you need. Incremental data backups require an extra monthly fee. Free support and software are available and you can have as many copies of software as needed. A single payment for one Terabyte of data storage is around £2500.
With some remote data backup accounts you can find free online backup for between 1GB and 20GB for the first thirty days. Some services offer monthly online backup services for anything between 1GB and 1TB. Advantages of monthly online backup services are no annual upfront payments and no lengthy contracts. A 2GB account is priced an around £15 per month, a 5GB is £19 per month, 10GB is £27.50, 20GB is £42.50, 35GB is £65, 50GB is £90, 75GB is £135, 100GB is £175, 125GB is £210, 150GB is £245, 175GB is £277.50, 200GB is £315, 250GB is £375, 400GB is £555, 600GB is £795 and 1TB (1000GB) is £1275 per month. These prices do not include VAT at 15%.
Alternatively you can find a backup space of 2GB, with unlimited bandwith priced at £12 per year. For 5GB of backup space, you can expect to pay around £25 per year. For 10GB this rises to £45 per year, and for 20GB with unlimited bandwith, it is £80 per year.
Rather than being priced individually, you may find account sizes are grouped together. The following prices indicate what you can expect to pay on a monthly basis. Up to 250MB can cost around £45 per month, it is £65 per month for between 251MB and 500MB, and £95 per month for between 501MB and 750MB. For over 751MB per month you will need to call the service provider to receive an accurate quote. If you have over 1000MB or more of data to transfer, it is suggested that you consider a dedicated server. These cost approximately £125 per month, depending on usage.
In addition to purchasing data backup accounts you can also choose to let trained staff set up the backup system for you. Advantages to this are that they can ensure that software has been installed and configured so that it performs to its utmost. The set up of this service costs approximately £25, no matter what size the account is. Prices for on-site set-up are around £55 per hour for a single computer and £110 per hour for a network of computers. Telephone support is then priced at £35 per hour for a single PC and £90 per hour for a network.
