We’ve decided on Novastor for our online backup service.  The interface isn’t much and there aren’t as many options as we’d expect for the price, but it does the job and it does it well.  The bit-level copy shrinks the backup considerably and the compression does a pretty good job at making the most of the ever-shrinking backup window.

Our current plan is to use Novastor for the following services:

• Offsite backup for workstation/workgroup environments that have too much data for our standard backup client
• As part of our server management service
• Offsite backup for server environments

The pricing will be customized to the data retention period and diskspace requirements of the client.

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