Backup Category

6 Reasons Why You Should Back Up Microsoft 365 Data

August 17, 2023
Office 365 is used by more than a million companies worldwide and holds almost 46% of the global market share for office suite technologies....

How to Perform AWS EC2 Backup: Step-By-Step Guide

August 8, 2023
AWS Backup is a relatively new addition to the wide range of AWS services and tools. AWS Backup can help you automatically back up and prote...

What Is Incremental Backup?

July 24, 2023
An incremental backup is a backup method that copies only changes written since the last backup – whether full or incremental. Incremental b...

Using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Technology for Consistent Backups

June 16, 2023
When creating a backup of a virtual or physical machine with running applications, especially applications that intensively write data to fi...

Forever Incremental Backups Explained

June 9, 2023
According to recent studies, more than 67% of companies back up machines and data on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The simplest...

What Is Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking: Using RCT for VM Backup

June 9, 2023
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...

Immutable Backups Explained: All You Need to Know to Secure Your Data

June 9, 2023
Most businesses worldwide use backups as their most important weapon in the fight against ransomware and malicious activities. Backups can h...

Backup Types Explained: Full, Incremental, and Differential

June 8, 2023
Backing up data is essential for organizations and individuals alike. The efficiency of data backup in each case depends on the selected bac...

How to Take Snapshot of EC2 Instance for AWS EC2 Data Protection

June 2, 2023
If you’re using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run EC2 instances (VMs) in Elastic Compute Cloud, you have several ways to protect your workloa...

AWS Backup Security Best Practices

June 1, 2023
AWS offers several cloud-based products for computing, storage, analytics, etc. Two of these products are often used by organizations for ba...

Tape Backup vs Disk Backup for VMs

June 1, 2023
In recent years, there has been a significant shift toward disk-based backup in terms of media used as targets by data protection solutions....

What Is Deduplication in Backup Data Storage

June 1, 2023
Today’s large virtual infrastructures generate a vast amount of data. This leads to an increase in backup data and in expenditure on backup...

An Overview of Microsoft Office 365 Backup Best Practices

June 1, 2023
Office 365 is a reliable cloud solution that operates using the infrastructure of Microsoft datacenters. Microsoft’s top priority is operati...

Setting Up Microsoft Office 365 Backup Policies: A How-To Guide

June 1, 2023
Despite the level of reliability provided by Microsoft, data loss in Office 365 may happen due to human error, viruses on the user’s side or...

Differential Backup vs. Incremental Backup

June 1, 2023
Modern backup solutions deliver different technologies to help save on storage space requirements, cut backup windows, improve performance,...

How to Speed Up VM Backups and Improve Performance

June 1, 2023
In 2022, it is estimated that more than half of businesses worldwide use virtualization technologies and rely on backups to protect their vi...

Building an Effective Backup Strategy for an Organization

June 1, 2023
Companies can face different disruptions, from hardware and software failures to human errors and cyberattacks. In 2021 alone, the percentag...

What is VM Backup and Replication in VMware?

June 1, 2023
VM backup and replication are essential parts of a data protection plan. At the first look, they seem similar and interchangeable, and this...

What Is Synthetic Full Backup: Facts Every Sysadmin Should Know

June 1, 2023
There are multiple backup approaches, including full, incremental, and differential. Creating full backups frequently may be inconvenient an...

Data Protection Fundamentals: How to Backup an Amazon S3 Bucket

June 1, 2023
Amazon S3 is reliable cloud storage provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Files are stored as objects in Amazon S3 buckets. This storage is...