IT Gurus needed - Disaster Recovery Service

Crashplan is just an off-site backup, from what I understand unless they now offer some remote disaster recovery services.

We are somewhat similar and I just setup the below solution. It may be overkill for you but just some ideas. Things like 0 downtime, offsite backup, High-Availability, geographic redundancy etc start adding to the price pretty quick.

We are an engineering firm and as such have lots of very large design files/drawings. We have a datacenter offsite, but even with our large pipe between the offices and the datacenter, the latency was just too much for the engineers opening these large files and working on them. So I set up a DFS Namespace, set up a a local server (physical) in the office, and have the DFS Replication running between the branch office and the datacenter. This way, the data is local, as well as in our datacenter, is synced, is highly available, and redundant.

Furthermore the data in our datacenter is snap-shotted at the SAN level and replicated to another data-center. Additionally we use a product to backup some servers in our data centers known as cloud berry that does a full backup to the cloud and I think it has a feature where you can recover the backup to something like AWS. That wouldn't be 0 downtime, but low downtime. We are very happy with Cloudberry for individual file restoration which is the main reason we use it.

ETA: all of that was based on the assumption you are talking about a Fileserver.

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But, this seems pretty excessive.

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That is NOTHING compared to data loss.

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Not sure how many servers you have, but $3,200 is kind of a no mans land depending on what they are proposing


Yea, was thinking the same thing. Are there appliccation servers or just run of the mill active directory/dns/dhcp, etc?

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Don't know but if the answer is 0 downtown that comes an expense much higher than $3,200.

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It's just a shock to us because we're passed the mom and pop company and are growing at a rapid pace.

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there's overpriced stuff out there, but when you get into an environment that can have 0 downtime and people start looking into data loss as revenue loss, they'll usually pony up the money.

i work primarily with schools in Texas and these days the demands of schools like Terrebonne Parish are not that far off from working with Orleans Parish when it comes to security and DR these days.

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there's overpriced stuff out there, but when you get into an environment that can have 0 downtime and people start looking into data loss as revenue loss, they'll usually pony up the money.

i work primarily with schools in Texas and these days the demands of schools like Terrebonne Parish are not that far off from working with Orleans Parish when it comes to security and DR these days.

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The Backup/DR space is littered with competition. I'd advise getting a few more quotes (especially for DATTO). You may be able to drive down those newly discovered costs.

Crashplan has ended support on their application for server OS and has no plans to support future versions of server OS. If you’re looking to reduce downtime with a solution, a file and folder level backup like this is probably not the best fit for you.

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We use Autotask for our PSA and are in the process of negotiating moving everything from crashplan to their endpoint backup offering. They also announced today that they have acquired Datto, which is interesting. We currently use storagecraft’s Shadowprotect for image based backup and we replicate it to a datacenter for business continuity purposes. Some, but not all of our clients have a BDR device onsite that will spin up the images of the primary server fails.

We also have Veeam running on VMs in the datacenter.

This has been a good solution for our clients in the SMB market but I can ask some of our employees about your specific infrastructure. I do like having multiple layers in place, an image based backup for continuity purposes and file and folder backup for retention purposes. Especially with larger data sets, I prefer not to be limited to a short retention period on revisions and deleted files and folders.

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We use Veeam too for backups for VMWare for HA and failover.

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So do we. Probably the easiest thing for be to justify year after year behind Palo Alto maintenance. It's saved my arse on several occasions.

Like others have said, while large capital IT expenditures may seem excessive on the surface, it's a drop in the bucket compared to data loss and/or extended downtime.

Look at Zerto. It's a product that will replicate virtual environments to cloud based providers. You can go directly to Zerto, or to providers that resell the service. Venyu is a provider based in BR.
Do some legwork, there are other solutions than Datto. A Zerto and Veeam for backup environment would get you plenty enough HA for most needs.