Vox Cloud Backup Calculator
Estimate your backup storage requirements and monthly costs. Configure your machines, data size, and backup policy below.
Step 1: Machines & Licences
How many machines do you need to protect?
Workstations
R80.08 / licence / month
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Virtual Machines
R218.29 / licence / month
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Servers
R218.29 / licence / month
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Step 2: Source Data
Total data to be protected across all machines
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The total amount of production data across all your machines that needs to be backed up. This is the combined used disk space of all workloads.
GB
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How much of your data changes each day. Low (3%) for static file servers, Average (5%) for general workloads, High (10%) for databases and transactional systems.
Low
3% daily
Average
5% daily
High
10% daily
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Normal backup storage is billed per GB. Immutable storage provides ransomware protection with write-once-read-many (WORM) capability, billed in 1 TB buckets.
Normal Backup Storage
R0.69 per GB / month
Immutable Backup Storage
R625 per TB / month (1 TB buckets)
Add immutable storage
Step 3: Backup Policy
Daily incrementals with periodic full backups
Backup Type
Daily Incremental
Retention
30 Days
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Periodic full backups reset the incremental chain and ensure reliable restores. A new full backup (approximately the size of your source data after compression) is created at this interval. Standard practice: weekly (7 days) or every 10 days.
50%
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How much your backup data is compressed. 50% (2:1) is standard for mixed workloads. Higher values for text-heavy data, lower for already-compressed data (images, video).
7%
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Extra space for metadata, indexing, and filesystem usage. Recommended: 7%.
15%
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Temporary space for merge and transform operations during active full backups. Recommended: 15%.
Estimated Results
Storage requirements & monthly costs
Configure & Calculate
Set your machines, data size, and backup policy, then click Calculate to see storage and cost estimates.
