Backing up your essential data is the only way to be sure it’s safe. And while there have been no major online storage disasters to date, it behooves you to maintain a local backup of your digital ...

Using advanced backup management tools, IT execs can get a whole lot savvier about auditing, capacity planning, SLA compliance and more Using advanced backup management tools, IT execs can get a whole ...

Does it make sense to create VLANs to try to improve backup speed? The reason I ask is because we have a storage cluster and backups from it run about 2500MB/min. I talked to vendor about this and ...

Use a competent backup software solution like Veeam Free Endpoint Backup or something similar. You'll need to make a mapped network drive mount of the network share from each computer to the other so ...

Backing up your network isn’t much good if you don’t have a mechanism for determining if your backups completed successfully. Further, even though a bunch of tools are available that monitor and ...

Professional computer people can be a bit harsh about backing up data. For that very reason, corporate I.T. departments are a great place to look for guidance on keeping your home data safe. The good ...

Apple's Time Capsule was discontinued long ago, but you can still get them to do your Time Machine backups on a modern network. Here's how. In 2008 Apple introduced a product called Time Capsule, ...

SysDM Inc. is introducing software designed to help systems administrators identify network back-up problems, which one expert estimates occur in almost half of all operations. The startup, founded in ...

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 ...