Scheduling restores (disaster recovery training) and backing up backups (offsite backups) are essential for every modern backup strategy.
By Michael Pietroforte - Fri, November 5, 2010 - 1 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
In this article I argue that backup methods relying on schedules and backup job configurations are no longer up to date.
By Michael Pietroforte - Wed, November 3, 2010 - 16 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
Now that you have a general idea about the architecture and capabilities of Blackbird recovery, I will give you an overview of how you can restore objects and attributes with the Active Directory backup software. Recover deleted Active Directory objects Blackbird recovery offers three ways to restore deleted AD objects: the Recycle Bin in the [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - Tue, August 3, 2010 - 0 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
In my previous post, I described Oops!Backup’s CDP features and its advantages over conventional backup tools. Today, I will give you an overview of the tool’s so-called ReverseDelta technology and how you can use the tool for notebook backups. Oops!Backup’s ReverseDelta stores file changes in so-called delta files. These delta files contain changes at the [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - Tue, February 9, 2010 - 0 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
Altaro is raffling 15 licenses of their nifty backup tool for desktops and laptops. Each license is worth US$37. I tested Oops!Backup for a few days and was quite content with the results. I am a big fan of Continuous Data Protection (CDP), not only because the backup intervals are significantly shorter than with conventional [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - Mon, February 8, 2010 - 2 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.