Pricing for hot backup sites

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A client asked me today what it would cost for a hot backup site for
disaster recovery purposes.
He is trying to get some ballpark numbers for budgeting purposes.
Anyone out there have any idea about what it costs to have>

1.  An agreement to have space available to load onto?
2.  Keep a backup system loaded and synced up via tape periodically?

The difference I see between the 2 options about is in the first the
client has an agreement to be able to use the machine if a disaster is
declared, but stores no data on the DR machine.  In the 2nd option, the
DR machine has a copy of the clients complete system and can be called
upon (maybe with only a data refresh) very quickly.

Anyone have such an agreement.... Any idea on estimated costs.

Thanks,
Cjg

Carl J. Galgano
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