Backups can be defended against ransomware attacks by moving them offsite from primary systems, removing file-system access to the backups, and avoiding using Windows as a backup platform.
Prepping for disaster recovery needs a plan, testing, and thinking about non-technical necessities like food and shelter for the recovery team.
How to tighten up security for backup systems and avoid malicious activities carried out by lone wolves.
Proper database backup is essential because of the importance of the data they contain, so understanding how the work is also a must.
A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have?
Using selective exclusion to determine what data gets backed up may result in storing some useless data, but it avoids having no backup for the important stuff.
Two types of backup – item level and image level – have different strengths, and it’s possible to tap the best of both.
There’s lots of ways to sort out what to back up and what not to, but the goal should always be to back up everything that needs to survive a crash.
Backing up hyperconvered infrastructure means backing up virtual machines, and that means several options to choose from.
