Full-file incremental forever, block-level incremental forever or source depulication? The best way to choose is to perform backup and recovery tests and evaluate the performance of each method. A ...

For more than a decade, Rdiff-backup has been our preferred choice for developing Minarca Data Backup software, an efficient data backup process management solution tailored for system administrators.

Every good DBA understands that backing up their database data is a non-optional part of assuring data availability and integrity. As a DBA, you need to know the difference between a full image copy ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In state and local government, system backups are essential to ...

The invention of synthetic full backups is one of the most important advancements in backup technology in the last few decades, right up there witih disk-based backups, deduplication, continuous data ...

In the digital age, data loss is a critical concern, and effective backup and recovery systems are vital for any Debian system administrator or user. Debian, known for its stability and suitability in ...

The purpose of backing up business-critical data is to achieve fast backups and restores that are 100% accurate. However, IT administrators have had to compromise between speed and accuracy because ...

Everyone in the storage industry knows this business is repetitive. The backup cycle can be likened to reliving the same day over and over or watching endless TV reruns as the same data is backed up ...