Production storage is increasingly reliable and resilient, but regularly creating and maintaining quality, independent backups of production data is more important than ever. Especially with cloud ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Data plays a vital role in any successful business. Protect­ing this data is mission-critical, and it falls to database administrators (DBAs) to organize, maintain, and secure it. The most effective ...

Backup should be top priority for a system administrator, and database backup is no different. Cloud database backup offers useful gains for business, but it comes with some drawbacks. The cloud is a ...

Transferring important files to a thumb drive is brilliant for portability, but not always great for longevity. Here's why ...

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. There are many options for backing up databases, and ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

As someone who regularly writes and speaks about data backups, it sometimes seems strange to stop and think about the fact that most of my friends and relatives rarely, if ever, back up their data.

Cloud-based software leads adoption, driven by ransomware risks, regulatory pressure and data growth, while hybrid architectures and managed services offer strong opportunities.Dublin, Oct. 13, 2026 ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to configure the Borgmatic tool to back up your databases with ease. I recently walked you through the process of installing the Borgmatic open-source backup solution. In ...