Backup & recovery
Full vs. incremental backups: The recovery trade-off
Backup chain design is usually settled during installation, in a dialog offering forward incremental, reverse incremental, or forever ...
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Backup & recovery
Instant VM recovery: What happens after the VM starts?
Instant VM recovery is measured in the demo by how quickly a machine answers a ping. That number is real, and it is also the least ...
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Backup & recovery
Backup success vs. recovery success: What to verify
Every job in the console is green, and has been for months. Then a server is restored after a storage failure and the application that ...
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Backup & recovery
Restore speed: How to find the slowest step
A restore expected to take two hours takes seven. The team watching has no way to tell whether the delay sits in the repository, the ...
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Backup & recovery
Backup windows: Why jobs stop finishing overnight
A backup job that used to finish by 4 a.m. now finishes at 6:30. Nobody changed anything. The next month it runs into the start of ...
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Cyber resilience
Cyber recovery drills: Test with production unavailable
A restore test that starts by logging into the backup console with a domain account proves the backup works. It does not prove the ...
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Cyber resilience
Backup network segmentation: Which connections remain?
Segmentation projects rarely fail on the firewall. They fail on the list of connections nobody can switch off. A backup environment is ...
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Cyber resilience
Backup security reviews: What a small IT team can test
Most backup security reviews die in the planning stage. Someone proposes a control framework, the mapping exercise takes three weeks, and ...
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Cyber resilience
Insider threats: Can an administrator erase backups?
The honest answer, in most environments, is yes. An administrator with the access normally granted to run a backup platform can also ...
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Cyber resilience
Backup service accounts: How to limit their reach
The account the backup software uses to read production usually holds far more privilege than the job requires. Domain administrator, or a ...
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