Despite repeated warnings, many small businesses continue to bet the farm on IT backup systems that don’t work. Their tape backups often fail due to malfunctioning ...

You always have the default backup tool from Microsoft, known as Windows Server Backup (WSB). This is a built-in tool, but it is not automatically configured; therefore, you will have to do so the ...

In kind of conundrum here. I have a server running some 'enterprise' backup software on Windows 7 (no really, it specifically supports Win7). Long story short, the software is awful and not reliable - ...

It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business. Today you can use backup ...

Back in the day, IIRC, Crashplan offered free "peer" backup; you exchange USB hard drives with a buddy, Crashplan backed up to the remote USB drive over the Internet, with encryption. This meant very ...

Your PC’s storage media is subject to malware and, on occasion, natural disasters such as lightning, fire, etc. — which is why formulating a backup strategy is critical for keeping your data safe. Our ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Backing up client computers in Windows Server Essentials is a key step in safeguarding valuable data and maintaining smooth operations. Administrators can easily configure automated backups, monitor ...

R-Drive Image is a super-reliable backup program that will do anything related to imaging drives and partitions. A long running favorite, it works when others have issues. The alternate, ...

What about disaster recovery and testing? Current backup systems also lack an easy way to verify that the disaster plan works. To fully test a server backup one must either restore over the current ...