How Much Data Do You Have
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Real question. How many people know how much data they have that they need to protect. I don't mean caches, swap files, unneeded logs, system files and all that stuff that can be wiped away and lost with no ill effects. I mean actual data whether it is that QuickBooks accounting file, an Excel spreadsheet, a LibreWriter document or a SQL Server data base backup. If you look at the actual data that you have, the data itself only. How much do SMBs tend to have?
Of course, this will be all over the map. The number of users, the type of work, the file types and tools used, the amount of hosted services (like email) will play huge roles in determining if you have 2GB or 200TB. But I'm looking to see how many people know what they have in reality and what those numbers tend to be.
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It is difficult to state the actual amount of data currently as I have the Old NAS the NEW NAS and a few external hard drives that need to be de-dupped.
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
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Need? No idea.
For me, it's easier to backup the entire server. I can restore files as needed, and get the whole thing back up pretty quickly.
Am I trying to optimize this? Sure, but as of now, I use 461.1GB of storage for my backups. That the servers, and incrementals on my backup rotation timeline.
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I just looked, we have about 100 GB in personal files/company files and email.
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@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
It is difficult to state the actual amount of data currently as I have the Old NAS the NEW NAS and a few external hard drives that need to be de-dupped.
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
I mean for a business, not for home.
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@BRRABill said in How Much Data Do You Have:
Am I trying to optimize this? Sure, but as of now, I use 461.1GB of storage for my backups. That the servers, and incrementals on my backup rotation timeline.
For example, all of ML has a backup size of something like 800MB. That's the total backup of everything.
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@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
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@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
What kind of CDs do people need backups of in a business?
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I just did this exercise when looking for new core infrastructure.
5.6 TB of actual production data with 3.6 TB in backups. This production data includes the data itself, along with the server and the program information as we backup the entire server, just like @BRRABill does.
Most essential data is little less than 1 TB. We have 1 TB of hosted cloud with our colo that is backed up to Virginia. This contains our file/DC server + connector for O365 and the SQL server for our ERP system.
We have about 500 employees across 2 production locations and 1 colocation (unmanned). Approximately 150 active users in AD. We are a butcher shop, essentially.
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@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
Since this is regarding business and not home - it's not important.
However in my case, the DVD / CDs are Movie / Music media. I could buy any of them again.
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@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
What kind of CDs do people need backups of in a business?
I'm sure Gene was talking about for home.
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@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
Since this is regarding business and not home - it's not important.
However in my case, the DVD / CDs are Movie / Music media. I could buy any of them again.
wow - that would be a lot of expense.
Instead of ripping them, I converted my collection to Vudu. No storage required. As long as they are in business, I have access to my collection.
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The systems I manage at work are roughly ~60GBs in backups of data only. That's ~39 servers. Most of them are really tiny. My biggest one is around 25GB.
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just finished to check out my company (30 ppl with pc, plus 20 in the warehouse). We have around 500GB of data excluding mail. Mail is a huge archive kept for both hystoric and legal reasons. This can go well over 500GB, but this is a static batch of data we do not change.
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Between everything, somewhere over 1PB. Not sure about the corporate data though.
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12GB of data, that includes hi res images, marketing, videos, a few key software installer packages, docs and manuals.
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All personal data including email is 6GB. The wife is a photographer so hers is in the 3-5 terabyte range, but I keep my stuff pretty streamlined.
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I'm still in the process of doing a Data audit, which includes:
- Production data totals (non-compressed, non-deduped)
- Data clean-up plan (what can go, duplicates, old and forgotten dupes, unneeded stuff)
- Data consumption rate (how fast is actual production data growing)
Rough estimate at this point is between 10 and 15 TB total. Estimated to be able to down it to under 8 TB raw. (may be wishful thinking, though)
EDIT: in addition to above storage:
- Office 365 email storage: 1.5 TB
- OneDrive: 125 GB
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Raw video: 2.5TB
DVD authoring files: 1TB
Office Data: 700MBEmail is hosted along with our VPS webserver, 50GB available to split between them.
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About 20 TB total
