Are you protected from data loss?


Data loss is a horrible thing to deal with.
Unfortunately, data can be irretrievably destroyed
in a variety of ways, including:

  • Hard drive failure
  • File corruption
  • System misconfiguration
  • Human/operator error (accidental deletion or modification)

Why should I backup?

If you value your data, you have to make backups. That is generally understood, but rarely accomplished. You can loose data due to human error (like deleting the wrong files), software failure, and hardware failures. We have digital data, cheap, simple and identical to backup.Most businesses don't have a backup plan that fully protects them. Despite technological advances in the reliability of magnetic storage media, data loss continues to rise, making data recovery more important than ever. Backup is about protecting this valuable data so that you can get it back quickly and without errors.

Introducing DomainGurus’s Brand-New Automated Backup Service

Our brand-new backup service is powered by Bacula, an open source, enterprise-grade network backup software utility. It provides fully automated backups at any time you choose, PLUS fully automated recovery! You don’t even need to call us when you need your data.

Best of all, this solution also works for Windows servers. Don’t be left out in the cold any longer! Virtually any flavor of Unix/Linux is supported (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, FreeBSD) as well as Windows Server 2003, Server 2008, XP, and 2000.

  • » Fully automated
  • » Reliable
  • » You control exactly:
  • » What gets backed up (files/directories to include or exclude)
  • » When the backup occurs (e.g. Sundays at 3:00 am PST)
  • » How often the backup occurs (daily incremental OR weekly “full”)
  • » Linux AND Windows OS support
  • » Minimal resource consumption on your server
  • » “Bare metal” restoration possible for worst-case scenarios
  • » Web interface for on-the-fly management of backups (see below)


We are discontinuing our existing Amanda backup service at the end of 2009, and highly encourage all existing server customers to switch over to Bacula as soon as possible.


What is Bacula?

In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of computers located over a large network.
Bacula have a Catalog service, the Catalog service permit the user to quickly locate and restore any desired file. The Catalog service sets Bacula apart from simple backup programs like tar and bru, because the catalog maintains a record of all Volumes used, all Jobs run, and all Files saved, permitting efficient restoration and Volume management.

How much $$ for all of this flexibility?

We’re now providing twice the space for the same price as before! Only $25 per month for 60 GB of storage space, with NO setup fee!

Due to the way Bacula works, be sure to purchase at least twice the space you think you will need. For example, if you have 30 GB of data to back up, you actually need 60 GB. This is to ensure that Bacula has enough space to retain at least one complete previous backup while it is in the process of pulling a new one.

Space Cost
60GB $25/mo + $0 Setup
90GB $35/mo + $0 Setup
120GB $45/mo + $0 Setup
150GB $55/mo + $0 Setup
180GB $65/mo + $0 Setup
240GB $85/mo + $0 Setup
If you anticipate needing significantly more space than this, or have a lot of servers to back up, we will soon be offering dedicated Bacula storage appliances, with capacity from 500 GB to 5+ TB. Contact us if you are interested in this.


Setup is simple. After your order is provisioned, simply follow the provided instructions to install and configure the Bacula client on your server. This client allows our backup cluster to contact your server and retrieve data. You will be assigned a secure password to use for this communication. Then specify exactly what directories and files to include or exclude in the backup to tailor it to your needs.

That’s it! Your first backup will be retrieved within 24 hours, and you can now breathe a well-deserved sigh of relief, confident in the knowledge that you can restore specific files, or even your entire filesystem *, whenever you need them. The best part is that you are in complete control. Very soon you will be able to restore your own files via a web interface – no more waiting for a sysadmin on the other side of the world to retrieve your data and send it to you whenever you need something.

Note: until the ”Web restore” feature is available, it is still necessary to contact DomainGurus when you need a restoration, but that process is quick and easy.
* “Bare metal” restoration of your entire server onto a blank hard drive is only possible if you are backing up EVERY file on your server.


You can select your backup frequency depending on your needs and how often your files are changing. We offer both “Daily” and “Weekly” backups. “Daily” pulls a full backup once a week, on a day that you select, plus daily incremental backups that store only the differences in files since the previous day. “Daily” backups should be sufficient for most users.

You can also choose your optimal hour of the day for the backup to be performed, therefore you are no longer locked into the rigid “only at midnight” schedule other providers use. This allows you to schedule things like a mysql database dump at 2am, then your Bacula data pull at 3am, which guarantees that you’ll always have the database backed up in a usable format.