The 5 deadly sins of small business backup:

Are you guilty?

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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Are you guilty?

• Identify and discuss the 5 most common “backup sins”

Agenda

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• Compare popular backup methods

• Offer suggestions for how to best support your small business’s backup needs

Apathy

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Apathy

THE FACT IS

7 out of 10 small businesses in the US experienced data loss due to technical or human disaster. (Hewlett Packard)

Only 13%

of small business owners think a data disaster could happen to them.

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Here’s how they have

lost data:

many SMBs have severely underestimated the importance of data backup and the necessity for it, as the implications of losing business critical data can cost them their business and livelihood.

Don’t Be Apathetic.Expect the Unexpected.

Make sure your data is protected.

“An SUV drove through our shop!!I was able to get the computer back

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I was able to get the computer back up since I used Carbonite to backup our business.”

- Manny Marin, Printing on Fifth, San Diego

best solution there is.”

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Hubris

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Disaster Protection

Comparison of backup methods:

How do they stack up?

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Reliability

Performance

Convenience

Price

Recovery and Protection

[Visual: to-do list]

Procrastination

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Procrastination

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thurs Fri Sat

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15 16 17 18 20

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28 29 30 31

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of small businesseshaven’t backed up in a week or more.

1in 4

X X X XX XX

Fact:

Common misconception:

“Backing up once a week is sufficient.”

11Q24a: Approximately how much time each week do you, your employees or your consultants spend in total on backing up your company’s data? (Please select one.) n=451

Fact:You should be backing up your data every day. By using an automatic, online backup method, your backup will happen automatically and continually in the background, without interrupting your work.

… I should have backed up.”

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Regret

54%

YET

of small business owners believe thatdata disaster is unlikely to impact their business.

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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”

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How will I get my business data back? Will I get it back?

How much will it cost to recover the data?

What will the downtime cost my business? Productivity?

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Ignorance

Carbonite Mozy SOS BackBlaze Dropbox for Teams

If you have 5 computers and a total of 50GB:

If you have 10 computers and a total of 250GB:

$537 $600 $250 $795$229

Annual Fees

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If you have 10 computers and a total of 250GB:

If you have 15 computers and a total of 500GB:

$1,974 $999 $500 $1,450

$3,711 not listed $900 $2,445

$229

$599

Data as of Sept 2011

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Lessons learned

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