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Plain explanations of the questions an IT admin actually asks before committing to a backup product: pricing, lock-in, restore testing and GoBD archiving. Every number is sourced to an official page and dated, or marked as illustrative where no official price is public. Vendor comparisons use the same standard.
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The subscription trap in backup pricing
Why per-user, per-year backup subscriptions rarely go down, and what a one-time license changes about that.
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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 license.
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Exit costs and vendor lock-in in backup software
What it actually costs to leave a backup vendor: proprietary formats, egress, and re-onboarding.
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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.
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Why restore tests matter more than backups
A backup that has never been restored is a theory. How verified, automated restore testing changes that.
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GoBD and email archiving, explained
What GoBD actually requires for email archiving in Germany, and what the Restow archive does since 0.1.0.
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GoBD compared internationally
How Germany's GoBD compares with record-keeping rules in the US, the UK, Switzerland and Austria, and why Restow builds for it.