Typical Tape Drive Costs
$1,200
DAT 72 Tape Drive & SCSI Card
$1,000
Open File Manager Software
1,200
60 DAT 72 Tapes ($20 each)
$3,400
Total Initial Costs per Server
1 Hour
Swapping Tapes (5 min per day x 20 days)
1 Hour
Off-site Tape Swaps (15 min per wk x 4 wks)
1 Hour
Monthly testing of tapes, troubleshooting
3 Hours
If you
consider the labor
costs of the 3 hours
above (1 hour at
Staff level, 1 hour
at Management level,
and 1 hour of labor
with an IT firm),
its easy to see that
monthly costs
associated with
backups are
considerable.
Data Vault Pricing
The Data Vault
Solution is simple -
$300 per server for
software, licensing
and data center
setup. $100 per
month per server for
backup services,
including up to
120GB of space on
our server.
Open File Manager is
also available for a
one-time license fee
of $450. This is
useful for anyone
who is running
Microsoft Exchange,
SQL Server, or other
applications where
files are open at
all times. It
provides a safe way
to backup these
files. In many
cases, however, this
is not required. See
our FAQs for more
information on how
to backup SQL Server
or Exchange
CD/DVD data copies
can be ordered and
delivered via
overnight shipping.
Pricing is based on
the amount of data
to be archived.
Contact us for more
information
