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<\/a> photo<\/a> credit: Unhindered by Talent<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Backups are good.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Everybody says so. <\/p>\n

Really, Really Good.<\/p>\n

So you’d think the University of Minnesota would be working to provide a reasonable on-line, off-site backup system for its folks. Unfortunately, their pricing structure seems to be from another planet where storage is, like, well, really … uh … expensive<\/em>!<\/p>\n

To quote from the relevant web page<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nOIT-UDMS Backup pricing (as of 2\/2008)<\/p>\n

Storage used Cost per month
\n  <128GB $25
\n  128GB \u2013 256GB $50
\n  256GB \u2013 384GB $75 <\/p>\n

To calculate the cost of backup service, simply round up the amount of data you need backed-up to the nearest increment of 128GB and use the formula of $25\/128GB\/month multiplied by the retention period (30 day backup is 4X the primary data). Backup data can be held for up to 90 days. Incremental backups are run daily and that data is retained for 2 weeks. Full backups are run weekly and those backups are held for one month.<\/p>\n

We have the additional options of 2 weeks, 30 days and 60 days if your requirements for retention are shorter.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup, that’s right. $25 a month for 128Gb of storage. I can buy 500 Gb hard drives for under $100, so I could buy 3 drives (1.5 Tb of storage) a year for he cost of their backup system. Mozy.com<\/a> will backup an unlimited amount of data for $5\/month for home users; not sure what their enterprise pricing is like, but I kind of doubt that they’re going to jump to the U’s pricing.<\/p>\n

Bet the U doesn’t get a lot of takers at these prices. Bet their staff aren’t backing up nearly as much as they’d like, either. Hmmmm … a relationship worth exploring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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