We're having an issue with a cloud provider we're currently testing. They are offering a backup solution based on Avamar. Basically, they are running an instance of Avamar in their part of the cloud ...

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 ...

You can never be rich enough or thin enough, and you can never have enough storage. I’ve been playing with Iomega’s brand new StorCenter ix2-200, a 4TB network-attached storage/home server that ...

Here's the deal; we want to set up a separate network on the ESX (4.1) hosts for backups. I go through the typical exercise of creating a new vswitch, adding the appropriate nic, and assigning the ...

Network devices control how traffic can travel across the network and have security monitoring features. Refine and preserve your settings by managing network device configurations. Network devices ...

Network traffic monitoring has evolved from a nice-to-have administrative tool into an essential cybersecurity defense ...

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...

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 ...

Backing up data can be fairly quick, but because the steps needed to access the backup and restore it to the live network, restores can be surprisingly slow. It comes as a big surprise to many people ...