Volume-tiered e3 pricing in CAD — $9/TiB at entry, down to $7.65/TiB at 25–49.99 TiB, custom quote at 50+ TiB
Forecast 10-year archive cost from a published rate card, in CAD, with no FX surprises and no Glacier-class tier negotiation.
LONG-TERM RETENTION & ARCHIVING
Long-Term Archive Storage Your Auditor and CFO Can Live With
From $9 CAD per TiB per month, with volume discounts to $7.65/TiB — call for quote at 50+ TiB. No egress, API, or retrieval fees. Object Lock available on every bucket for WORM-grade compliance, and 100% Canadian residency for the full retention window — a defensible home for the records you have to keep for 7, 10, or more years.
Object Lock WORM via e3
No egress or retrieval fees
Always-hot retrieval
100% Canadian residency
Published tiers to 49.99 TiB
Operating since 2017
The challenge
Retention Obligations Grow Forever; Budgets Do Not
Healthcare files, legal matter records, audit working papers, engineering drawings, and government records all sit on multi-year retention schedules — 7 years, 10 years, or permanent — that only ever grow. Most archive offerings punish you twice: a per-TiB rate that climbs as the data grows, and a retrieval fee that lands the same week the auditor or opposing counsel does. On a 10-year horizon, the more pressing question is whether the vendor will still be there to answer the phone when the records are finally needed.
- !7- to 10-year (or permanent) retention schedules with no end in sight — clinical files, matter records, audit working papers, engineering drawings, and government records that only ever grow.
- !Surprise retrieval fees during audit response or e-discovery — the archive bill arrives the same week as the lawyer's request.
- !No defensible WORM lock to prove records were not altered after creation — the question regulators ask first.
- !Vendor risk on a 10-year horizon: will the operator still exist, will renewal prices stay reasonable once the data is locked in, and what happens to your records if the vendor is acquired?
Why generic backup falls short
Why Cold-Tier Archives and US Hyperscalers Fall Short for Compliance Records
Glacier-class archive tiers were designed for data the business hopes never to read again. Compliance archives are the opposite — they are read on the regulator's schedule, not yours. Cold-tier retrieval fees and days-long thaw windows turn the moments you cannot negotiate — an audit, an e-discovery deadline — into the most expensive line items on the cloud bill. And on a 10-year horizon, US-jurisdiction storage and hyperscaler egress fees compound into vendor lock-in you cannot afford to walk away from.
- —Cold-tier retrieval fees punish audit and e-discovery response — the moments you cannot negotiate price on.
- —Days-long thaw windows fail e-discovery deadlines and regulator response windows.
- —Egress fees create vendor lock-in over a 10-year horizon — at some point, leaving costs more than staying.
- —US-hosted archives create residency exposure and CLOUD Act risk for the full retention window, not just at upload.
How eazyBackup solves it
How eazyBackup Makes Long-Term Retention Defensible and Predictable
Long-term archive on a single Canadian backbone with one published rate card. e3 Object Storage starts at $9 CAD per TiB per month and steps down to $7.65/TiB at 25–49.99 TiB, with custom pricing at 50+ TiB — no egress, API, or retrieval fees, and Object Lock available as a WORM mechanism on every bucket. Always-hot retrieval means a 10-year-old record returns in minutes, not days. Long-retention recovery points for servers, VMs, and SQL databases follow the same retention and pricing model through Cloud Backup, and the entire archive stays inside Canadian jurisdiction for the full retention window.
No egress, API, or retrieval fees
Audit response, e-discovery exports, and regulator pulls cost the same as a quiet day — no surprise invoice when the lawyer calls.
Always-hot retrieval, 24/7
A 10-year-old record returns in minutes, not days — fast enough to honour an e-discovery deadline or regulator response window.
Object Lock with configurable retention periods
A defensible WORM mechanism the records team can point to under audit — recovery points cannot be altered or deleted before the retention window expires.
100% Canadian residency, no cross-border replication
The archive stays inside Canadian jurisdiction for the full retention window, not just at upload — no CLOUD Act exposure on year-9 records.
S3-compatible target for Veeam, Comet, Rclone, and custom archive scripts
Bring your existing retention tooling; e3 sits underneath as the durable, immutable destination — no new archive workflow to certify.
Canadian-owned operator since 2017
A stable vendor for a 10-year retention horizon — not a 2-year-old startup with VC pressure to be acquired.
Object Lock WORM via e3
No egress or retrieval fees
Always-hot retrieval
100% Canadian residency
Published tiers to 49.99 TiB
Operating since 2017
A real-world scenario
Engineering Firm Consolidates 80 TiB of Project Archives onto e3 with Object Lock
A mid-sized Canadian engineering firm holds 80 TiB of 10-year project records — CAD project files, signed-off engineering drawings, and client-issued change orders — split today between an aging LTO tape library and a Glacier-class archive at a US hyperscaler. The records team consolidates the entire archive onto e3 Object Storage under a custom capacity agreement at that scale, with Object Lock retention configured to the firm's project-record schedule. Ongoing CAD-server and engineering file-share recovery points follow the same retention and pricing through Cloud Backup, and the firm's accounting working papers and audit trial balances move to the same Canadian backbone — under the same retention model used elsewhere in the platform for law firm matter files and long-horizon clinical records.
Outcome
Indicative 10-year TCO comes in roughly 40% lower than a cold-tier-with-retrieval-fees alternative when audits actually pull data — based on the firm's modelled retrieval cadence. Audit-response time on year-7 project records drops from days to minutes, and the records team has one Canadian vendor under one published rate card for the full retention horizon.
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