We're having an issue with a cloud provider we're currently testing. They are offering a backup solution based on Avamar. Basically, they are running an instance of Avamar in their part of the cloud ...

Of the products tested, Arkeia Network Backup had the longest lists of supported operating-system clients and storage devices and methods. Of the products tested, Arkeia Network Backup had the longest ...

John Manning pointed us to this Dantz Forums thread which discusses why you need to login as a root user to backup to networked volumes. Note: "OS X does not allow Retrospect (which runs as root) to ...

The rite of spring cleaning is clearly good for your home and your mind and well-being, but trust me, your home network and all the devices connected to it could use it, too. Yesterday, we looked at a ...

There's really no excuse for a bad backup strategy.

Full-file incremental forever, block-level incremental forever or source depulication? The best way to choose is to perform backup and recovery tests and evaluate the performance of each method. A ...

We recently came into a Dell Powervault 110T LTO drive and a bunch of tapes. We installed the SCSI card in our Exchange server on a PowerEdge 2650. We're using Veritas Backup Exec with the Exchange ...

If you ask me what is the easiest way to steal information from a highly secure site, I will probably not suggest trying to exploit a misconfiguration in the firewall, subverting the perimeter ...

Rsync shows up in almost every serious backup discussion, yet it is often dismissed as old, unfriendly, or outdated compared to modern backup tools with polished interfaces. I have tried a lot of ...