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 ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

A free tool from Microsoft can make backing up data in Windows Server 2008 R2 efficient and almost hassle-free. Here's how to use it effectively. Back in the day, Microsoft's free backup tool was the ...

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a new disk-based backup and recovery server for Windows file servers, became generally available on Tuesday. Several partners are rolling out hardware ...

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) cannot afford to lose information. Imagine a dynamic and competitive SMB losing momentum if important information should suddenly disappear as a result of a stolen ...

A tape backup drive failed and while we're waiting for a new one, I thought we would try backup-to-disk to another server. I setup a backup-to-disk folder and ran the media rotation wizard. I thought ...

How to choose the right data backup system for your business. Let’s do an experiment: Turn off all your computers holding any accounting, sales, database, ordering, shipping or manufacturing ...