✓ Small-team database recovery planning
✓ Native versus managed backup decisions
✓ Isolated rehearsal and operating-cost records
— Live incident command execution
— Guaranteed failover or recovery
— Security or compliance certification
— Laptop-only backup shopping
A deliberately simple model
Multiply estimated stored size per copy by the number of retained copies and destinations. This is a planning model for full copies. It does not model deduplication, incremental chains, compression ratios, versioning, minimum storage duration or provider request charges. Use observed artifact sizes rather than raw database size when available.
Separate schedules
Daily and monthly copies can have different retention rules and may overlap. Account for the actual behavior of your tool rather than assuming duplicates disappear. If you disable rotation, a fixed copy-count estimate no longer describes ongoing growth. Revisit the model when schedules or artifact size change.
Compare the complete bill
Enter your own current storage unit price and add retrieval or operational costs separately. The worksheet is not a merchant quote. A small monthly storage saving may be irrelevant if the chosen tier delays recovery or makes the procedure harder to operate.
Use the result as a question
If the estimated footprint is surprisingly large, inspect the retention objective before shortening it. The right response may be a layered schedule, a different storage class or an explicit policy decision. Never delete recovery history only to match a calculator result.
Reproduce the fictional full-copy example
A stored artifact of 5 decimal GB, retained fourteen times across two destinations, produces a modeled footprint of 140 GB. At a fictional price of 0.02 currency units per GB per month, storage alone is 2.80 per month. This is not a SimpleBackups or storage-provider quote. It assumes every retained copy is full-sized and priced alike. If one destination uses a different rate, calculate it separately and add the results; do not average rates without weighting the actual retained footprint.
The evidence behind this buying guidance
This guide draws on SimpleBackups retention behavior, SimpleBackups backup storage. Merchant-controlled records describe the provider’s own capabilities, terms or standards; they do not independently validate those claims. These records do not establish independent confirmation of the product claims.
Verify any current price, plan limit, label direction, compatibility rule, or commercial term that would materially change the decision. The dated source ledger shows the underlying records so this conclusion can be checked and updated.
Sources used for this page
These records support the facts and comparisons above. Merchant-controlled records are labelled so you can separate product claims from independent evidence.
- SimpleBackups retention behavior — Merchant documentation · simplebackups.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-10-01
- SimpleBackups backup storage — Merchant documentation · simplebackups.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-10-01