The basic goal is to minimize the cost of backup without additional risk and at a minimum of administrative effort (your effort).

The cost of your backup is closely related to the amount of data being backed up. With online backup, the cost is usually directly related to the storage space used. With our online backup system, the account sizes and pricing on based on compressed storage.

There are two basic components to your backup storage:

1) Data Area - Current files being backed up

2) Retention Area - Deleted files and older versions of files

In most common small business scenarios, the retention area is a very small percentage of the total storage space used. This means that retention adjustments to backup jobs rarely results in the desired outcome of cheaper backups.

Files deleted from your file server are not immediately deleted from the stored backups. They are retained based on the retention