First look: Windows Server 8 Storage Spaces

Wed, 28 March 2012

By Derek Schauland Takeaway: Derek Schauland takes Microsoft’s new Storage Spaces technology for a spin in the lab to see what it’s all about. It is part of the Windows Server 8 preview. Microsoft is doing something pretty wild in terms of storage in Windows Server 8. In this post, I’ll look at the new

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How to make backup files that never exceed a predefined size

Tue, 07 February 2012

By Marco Fioretti February 7, 2012, 12:20 PM PST Takeaway: Marco Fioretti offers a script that you can use to create backups that don’t exceed a certain file size, making it easier to spread backups across various storage media or services. Backups are a necessity of digital life. The more frequently you make them, the

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Five Tips For Effective Backup And Recovery In Virtual Environments

Mon, 13 June 2011

Our Five Tips  Tip #1: Minimize the amount of data you protect You can reduce the amount of data you back up while ensuring 100 percent recovery by using technologies that filter out unchanged and deleted data. While tools that utilize VMware CBT (Changed Block Tracking) eliminate the backup of some unnecessary data, CBT does

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