Backups costs?

What sort of backup? Are you going to have to root through for specific documents or is it a general copy My Documents and possibly a couple of other things?

If it is just a quick copy of My Documents etc to DVD or similar then I'd probably allow half an hour or so to perform the copying and check the copy so I'd maybe suggest around £25 inclusive as a DVD costs very little by itself and the copying process requires little user input. If it is spanning multiple folders and requires more than one DVD I'd work out what the average time taken will be and then charge on the basis of around £50p/h. This is just off the top of my head though as I'm not in the induestry. :)
 
This is the tricky bit. I have no idea as it's a service I offer. It could be any thing from as you say a small "my Documents" file to a large array of music and video files. I was thinking of charging in segments of 4gb of data saved (DVD size roughtly).

?? Clueless really?
 
3.5gb or thereabouts segments sound reasonable, I don't know exactly how fast that will copy but that should be do-able in half an hour. I also don't know what you normally charge per hour but £25 per disk sounds reasonable given the time it will take, maybe you could do £25 for the first disk and then £20 for any subsequent ones?

Would you be going to the customers house to do this or taking it back to your workspace to do the backup? If it is at the customers house then you might need a portable DVDRW drive or similar in case they don't have one for you to use. I'd also be thinking about charging more for on-site backups because you can't just start it running and then concentrate on another project at the same time.

The final thing I'd suggest is that you make it clear to customers and potential customers that they should make it clear what they want backed up e.g. to organise it into folders or similar because you do not want to be faffing around trying to find them. :)
 
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