Cloud backup - help figuring out costs and who to use

[tj2419]

We currently use Backup Assist as our backup software. We have it mirrored across the site to another NAS.

 

I want to start backing up to a cloud destination but am finding the costs too complicated to figure out. Is anyone able to give some real world examples of cost per amount of storage? Do you backup every file on your network to the cloud destination? How long do your cloud backups go back? Do you archive your data online?

 

Backup Assist supports Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services as backup destinations. Is there any major reason to choose one over the other?

 

I was looking at this calculator for the Azure Cool Blob storage but again not sure I am inputting it right. If one round of backups totalled 5TB and I wanted to be updating it every night with a couple of GB changes. 1. How do I work out the monthly cost and 2. How do I work out the cost if I needed to restore it all?

 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/?service=storage

 

Apologies for the all the questions just for some reason I cannot get my head around this.

 

Thanks

Edited July 3, 2017 by tj2419
fixed link

[LeMarchand]

I'm gonna bump this as I can't get a new server signed off until we have investigated cloud backups. Would imagine we would have up to 4TB of backups or 1/2 a dozen VMs. I can't even get the page linked above to display properly in Firefox, and the "Pricing Calculator preview (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/preview/) appears broken even in MS browsers!