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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Backup & recovery

Veeam hardened repository vs. S3 object lock: Which immutability model fits?

Veeam Backup & Replication offers two established ways to make backup data immutable: a hardened Linux repository, where the operating ...

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Backup & recovery

3-2-1-1-0: Updating the backup rule for ransomware

What the extra immutable copy and the zero-error test add to the 3-2-1 rule, and how to apply them.

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Cyber resilience

Backup repository sizing: How much storage do you need?

Change rate, retention, immutability and growth shape the capacity you actually need.

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