Backup Storage Planner: The Right Backup Solution for your Needs!

This free backup space calculator will help you estimate your storage requirements based on the inputs that you provide. It provides an estimated cost of what you’ll pay for cloud or local backups. Additionally, you receive suggestions for recommended storage solutions, such as servers, clouds, NAS, etc.

Backup Storage Planner

Calculate your backup storage needs, estimate costs, and optimize your strategy

Backup Configuration

Data Size

Enter value between 1-10000

Data Type

Monthly Growth Rate: 5%

0% 20%

Backup Strategy

Retention Policy

Storage Optimization

Compression Level

Deduplication

Redundancy

Storage Tier

Backup Analysis Results

Summary

Cost Analysis

Method Comparison

Recommendations

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Initial Data Size

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Required Storage

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Space Savings

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Monthly Cost

Original Data Size

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After Optimization

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Recommendation

Based on your data profile, we recommend using incremental backups with high compression for optimal storage efficiency.

Cost Breakdown

Cloud Storage (S3 equivalent) –

On-prem HDD Storage –

On-prem SSD Storage –

Tape Storage (LTO-8) –

Compression Method Comparison

Method	Best For	Speed	Ratio
GZIP	General purpose	Fast	Medium
ZSTD	Balanced needs	Very Fast	Good
LZMA	Maximum compression	Slow	Best
Brotli	Web content	Medium	Very Good

Backup Best Practices

3-2-1 Backup Rule

Maintain 3 copies of your data, on 2 different media, with 1 copy offsite for optimal data protection.

Regular Testing

Test your backups quarterly to ensure recoverability. Untested backups are not backups.

Tiered Storage

Use hot storage for recent backups, cool storage for medium-term, and cold storage for archives to optimize costs.

Note: This tool gets multiple inputs to understand your storage requirements and runs fully on the front end. We do not save any of your data anywhere. I hope this helps you plan your backups in a better way.