I have a lot of customers that use Veeam for onsite backup, so naturally a lot of them have an offsite backup as well. If they have multiple office locations, they store the offsite at a remote office, otherwise they typically have the offsite backup server sitting at the business owner's house.
In the process of setting up an off-site backup, I took the off-site server home to test it and make sure it runs smoothly off-site, and the plan was to take it to the owner's house at some point. However, they asked if I could just leave it at my house.
So my questions:
- Is this a bad idea, as far as potential liability or anything? From the practical perspective, it's probably better sitting at my house than the owner's, and I can check on it very easily if jobs start to fail.
- What would be a reasonable monthly rate to charge for this? I have 50/25 FiOS that I barely use, so I'm not really worried about the bandwidth. Our company charges hourly for IT work, so the monthly cost is basically just a hosting fee. If anything breaks and needs to be fixed, that's additional hourly costs.