I've run a computer repair and IT shop since 2010. Magnus Box came straight out of that grind: the failed backups, the 3 AM restores, the vendors who didn't pick up. Here's the honest story of why it exists.
I'm a tech, not a backup executive. I've been fixing computers and running IT for small businesses since 2010, the kind of shop where you're the help desk, the network guy, and the person who gets the call when everything is down.
Backups were always the part I dreaded. Not because they're hard in theory, but because the tools made them hard. Consoles that fought me. Jobs that reported "success" for months and then failed the one time it actually mattered. Bills that jumped when a client's data grew. And support lines where I'd wait days for someone who had never run a shop in their life.
A small business near my shop lost everything when a single external drive failed. Professional recovery was quoted at over $2,000, money they didn't have. A few months later, they closed their doors. I couldn't stop thinking about how a few dollars a month of real backup would have saved them. That's the moment Magnus Box started.
Over a Thanksgiving weekend in 2018, I rebuilt the backup platform I wished I'd had: simple enough to deploy in an afternoon, honest about failures instead of hiding them, and priced so any shop could protect every client. Friends in the industry started using it. Then their friends did. That became Magnus Box.
I'm not trying to build the biggest backup company. I'm trying to build the one you actually like working with.
If you're tired of fighting your backup tool, I get it. That's the whole reason I'm here. Start a free trial and see for yourself, or grab 15 minutes with me. No pitch. Just one tech talking to another.
Mike Slodowski
Founder, Magnus Box · running an MSP since 2010
Start a free trial, or grab 15 minutes with me. No credit card, no pressure, no sales gauntlet.