Production storage is increasingly reliable and resilient, but regularly creating and maintaining quality, independent backups of production data is more important than ever. Especially with cloud ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Data plays a vital role in any successful business. Protect­ing this data is mission-critical, and it falls to database administrators (DBAs) to organize, maintain, and secure it. The most effective ...

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. There are many options for backing up databases, and ...

An Exchange Server holds data in databases (EDB files). The EDB files, which are proprietary of Microsoft, are accompanied by transaction logs. Although the server and its configuration are important, ...

IDrive, a leading provider of cloud backup and data protection solutions, is assisting organizations to strengthen data security and support regulatory compliance through independently audited ...

Backup should be top priority for a system administrator, and database backup is no different. Cloud database backup offers useful gains for business, but it comes with some drawbacks. The cloud is a ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

As someone who regularly writes and speaks about data backups, it sometimes seems strange to stop and think about the fact that most of my friends and relatives rarely, if ever, back up their data.

Jack Wallen shows you how to configure the Borgmatic tool to back up your databases with ease. I recently walked you through the process of installing the Borgmatic open-source backup solution. In ...

Microsoft Corp. last week began letting SQL Server users who have Software Assurance contracts set up fail-over databases at no extra cost, a new policy that some customers said could give Microsoft ...