Backup Survey

We want to get an idea of how well/badly are the existing backup systems serving you to help us define a more client friendly backup application for making the tedious job of backups simple.
All fields in this form are optional. Depending on your role you may not know answers to some of the questions so you may skip them.

Personal Information

Recommended only if you want to be contacted for updates/beta invites.

Name

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Role

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Company

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Company URL

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Are you the guy who manages backups for your company?

Yes
No
Sometimes

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Do you want to be contacted for updates on this new idea we are working on?

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Experience with existing Backup Solutions

Following section revolves around your experience with the already implemented backup solution and some specific to help us gain better insight of your backup requirements.

Do you use a 3rd party solution to backup your data? If yes, which one?

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Do you use a custom backup solution? If yes, what?

Example could be using cron script with SCP+NFS, FTP, etc...

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What kind of backups do you prefer/use?

On-site
Off-site
Hybrid

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How much are you paying for backups on monthly basis? Specify Currency too if its not USD.

(For custom solutions provide the last invoiced amount against FTP/Server, etc)

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Do you believe you are overpaying?

Yes
No
Well, somewhat.

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How much data is being backup?

(in GB)

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What is the avg restore time against existing backups?

(minutes)

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How many files exist in the data to be backup?

(a ballpark figure should do, for example 13K, 20K or less, around 50K)

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What is the avg file size in the data to be backup?

(please use suffices of kb, mb, gb, tb. again a ballpark figure should do, say 13mb, 200mb, ...)

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For disaster recovery how many recent backups are enough?

3 days
1 week
1 month
Other:

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What kind of backups do you maintain?

Server
Desktop
Mobile Devices(Tablets, Phones, ...)

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Do you do database backups?

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How do you do database backups?

Database Dumps
Hot copy
Filesystem/LVM snapshots
Other:

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Would you prefer to use(or already use) a CMS plugin to manage backups?

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Do you do(or intend to do) encrypted backups?

Yes
No
May be

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What are the top 3 problems you face with currently implemented solution?

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Primary Desktop OS

Windows
Linux/Unix
Mac

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Primary Server OS

Windows
Linux/Unix
Mac

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Grading key aspects of Backup Solutions

Below we have some questions to understand your priorities when you are on hunt for a good backup solution. Select the scale of following aspects from 0 to 5 to indicate their importance.

	0	1	2	3	4	5
							Extremely Satisfied

	0	1	2	3	4	5
							Always

	0	1	2	3	4	5
							Most Important

	0	1	2	3	4	5
							Most Important