Backups for small biz

[Brother D]

Day to day is in an enterprise environment.

Family memeber runs a small accounts office of 3 people (son set up comms room with 3 full size servers so could run full AD with a NAS).

Office runs local copies of Quickbooks that has a script to back up the quickbook files to another server at the end of each day.

The concern is that should the office burn down they would lose both the active server and the NAS.

They are planing on moving the NAS to an off-site location, which solves the building buring down, but doesn't help if the file system all gets infected.

I've suggested using the cloud/on-line version of Quickbooks but they are admimately against it, and their IT supplier has quoted a hefty fee for moving it to their cloud solution for backups.

Long winded - but does anyone have suggestions on maybe using Office 365 and the included storage for back up? Its probably changed, but my brother used to pay for backblaze or similar, but when it came to restoring files without the super expensive plan it was looking to take over a week to restore.

Does one drive offers snap-shots in case the drive gets encrypted?

[HantsRat]

Why don't you keep the NAS where it is and backup the NAS to the cloud to something like Amazon S3?

[Harpoon]

Three servers for three people? Blimey.

What sort of volume of data needs backing up?

[Captain_Morgan]

How much data?

[Brother D]

Harpoon said:

Three servers for three people? Blimey.

What sort of volume of data needs backing up?

Yeah.... The son basically built his own test environment paid for by his mum that wouldn't be out of place in a 200+ person company... I dread to think how much money was spent - there's even a trenched fiber link between buildings...

(Side note - he set up a couple of bitcoin mining servers in the comms room they had built, and the results didn't cover the $4k electricity bill)...

Anyway, the day-to-day quickbooks file is about 10Gb I think, however they keep 30 days worth of backups for some reason.

[thebraketester]

My advice is to keep out of it :-)

[ZesPak]

Do they have any office or google subscription? Should be sufficient storage to slot the relevant files there without any additional cost. Saved all my mother's files from a ransomware once.

[camel_landy]

thebraketester said:

My advice is to keep out of it :-)

^^^ This...

...coz if anything fails, you were the last person to touch it, so it must be all your fault.

I'd advise telling them to leave everything as is, while punting backups into the cloud.

M

[Chimune]

3-2-1 rule.
3 copies of your data.
2 different technologies used.
1 offsite.

Veeam is ace.

Then as above, stay out of it as it sounds like amateur hour...

[biggiles]

I agree with keeping it out of it!

If they are lucky, backing up the NAS might be easy with the vendor tools - e.g. if it's Synology, then their C2 clloud backup is cheap as chips and a doddle for (them) to set up.