Topics
This page indexes six sourced explainers on backup pricing, vendor lock-in, restore testing and GoBD archiving, the practical questions that come up before buying backup software.
Plain explanations of the questions an IT admin or engineer actually asks before committing to a backup product, not feature marketing, and not vague either: every number on these pages is sourced to an official page and dated, or explicitly marked as an illustrative, non-vendor-specific figure where no official price is public. See the vendor comparisons for the same sourcing standard applied vendor by vendor.
Six topics
- The subscription trap in backup pricing: Why per-user, per-year backup subscriptions rarely go down, and what a one-time licence changes about that.
- Per-user backup pricing over 5 years, calculated: A worked, sourced example of what metered and per-seat backup pricing compounds to, against a one-time licence.
- Exit costs and vendor lock-in in backup software: What it actually costs to leave a backup vendor: proprietary formats, egress, and re-onboarding.
- Bring your own storage: why it matters for backup: Why writing to storage you already control changes the economics and the trust model, not just the price.
- Why restore tests matter more than backups: A backup that has never been restored is a theory. How verified, automated restore testing changes that.
- GoBD and email archiving, explained: What GoBD actually requires for email archiving in Germany, and the current state of Osiris's archive layer.