The latest version of cPanel backup has support for automatically backing up your website to multiple cloud providers. Before reading this blog post, make sure you take a look at my previous post, how to backup a cPanel website. Backing…
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Why do Hyper-V Backups Waste Space?
There are too many traditional backup products trying to tackle a nontraditional backup problem. As a result, they continue to use some of the old world backup techniques in the very new world of IT. These techniques waste storage space,…
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Hyper-V, Incremental backup, Nakivo, Synthetic Backup, Tape, VM
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Why Should You Not Use Your Backup as an Archive?
All of us at storage Switzerland preach that backup and archive are two different practices, and have been for probably more than 20 years. But to see the results of a survey during one of our recent webinars, you would…
How to Backup a cPanel Website
cPanel is a web based hosting control panel used by many hosting providers. The program gives their customers a graphical interface from which they can control their portion of the Linux server. If you haven’t configured the backup of your…
Can Your Server Survive a Fire or Flood? – ioSafe Briefing Note
My dad always said, “The best fight is one you don’t have.” In the same way, the best restore is one you never have to do. We all believe that, and we do our best to avoid every restore we…
Can DRaaS Protect you from Ransomware?
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors suggest their offerings can cure a number of ails. They offer the power and recoverability of a hot site without the traditional costs that a hot site present. They offer a way to…
Datrium Adds Data Protection Features – Datrium Briefing Note
What if you could have the performance advantages of local flash storage and the data protection advantages of hyperconverged infrastructure without the limitations of either? That is the goal of Datrium DVX, a unique product to say the least. We…
Tagged with: Compression, Datrium, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVRAM, Replication, Snapshot
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Successful Disaster Recovery? – Trust but Verify
Verifying that you’re ready for a disaster is difficult but not impossible. The three elements of your infrastructure that must be present for a successful recovery from a disaster are compute, network, and storage. Let’s take a look at how…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Replication, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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What is the Impact of Optimizing a Windows File Server
Optimizing a Windows file server optimizes a number of related processes and systems. In a previous blog we discussed what it’s like to optimize a file server, which involves automatically identifying, moving, and referencing inactive files. Once the initial optimization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Encryption, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware
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How to Optimize Windows File Servers
So many people create files they use once and never use again. They create a spreadsheet for this afternoon’s meeting to support their belief that the department needs more widgets. Once they get approval for the widgets, they don’t need…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Migration, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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