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 ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. To test backup and restore time and throughput, we used a ...

Going on adding a lot of new data to backups very soon. Going from about 15tb fulls to 55tb fulls. All new hardware is in the works. That is where I need some guidance. I have had a lot of experience ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...