Companies tend to put off backup because “it’s unclear how much it costs.” Let’s run the numbers for a typical ten-person company: what the price is made of and how to bring it down.
What a typical company has
Take a small business: a 1C server with a 40 GB database, a shared documents folder of 120 GB and ten workstations, each holding 20–30 GB of genuinely important files. That’s roughly 400 GB of data the company cannot afford to lose.
What to back up and how often
- The 1C database — the most valuable and the most frequently changing data. A backup every 6 hours, kept for 30 days: at most, accounting loses half a day of work.
- The file server — a nightly backup, kept for 30 days with version history. That lets you recover both a file deleted yesterday and a spreadsheet overwritten a week ago.
- Workstations — document folders only, once a day. There’s no point backing up the OS and applications: reinstalling them is faster.
How much space the backups take
Backups aren’t stored as a full copy every day, but as one initial full backup plus incremental changes. In practice, storage with history comes to 2–3 times the size of the source data. For our company: the 1C database takes about 120 GB with history, files 250 GB, workstations 300 GB. That’s about 670 GB in total.
Calculating the cost
At MyCloud rates you pay only for the volume of stored backups — 300 UZS per GB per day. There is no separate fee per server, database or workstation.
| Item | Per day | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| 1C database backups, 120 GB | 36 000 UZS | 1 080 000 UZS |
| File server backups, 250 GB | 75 000 UZS | 2 250 000 UZS |
| Backups of 10 workstations, 300 GB | 90 000 UZS | 2 700 000 UZS |
| Total, 670 GB | 201 000 UZS | ≈ 6 030 000 UZS |
About 6 million UZS per month to make sure the company survives ransomware, a burned-out server or a departing employee who “cleaned up” the shared folder. The price depends directly on volume: the shorter the retention and the fewer folders you back up, the smaller the bill.
What to compare it with
A day of downtime for accounting and the warehouse in a ten-person company means a day’s payroll plus missed shipments and penalties. Rebuilding a 1C database “from memory” using source documents takes weeks. An external drive in a desk drawer is cheaper, but it protects you from neither ransomware (it encrypts the drive too), nor fire, nor theft.
How to get started
Start with what matters most — the 1C database and the shared folder: that is about 370 GB of backups, 111 000 UZS per day ≈ 3 330 000 UZS per month. Employee workstations can be added later. Backup setup is free, and we run the first test restore together with you — so the backup isn’t just there “for show.”
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