Search Data Backup, Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
7 Data Backup Strategies And Best Practices You Need To Know
This comprehensive guide explains backup basics, common threats and seven critical best practices your backup strategy needs.
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Backup Central, Monday, June 16th, 2025
Understanding Snapshot Backup
When it comes to data protection, few topics generate as much confusion as snapshot backup.
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InformationWeek, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
The Role Of The 3-2-1 Backup Rule In Cybersecurity
By blending the time-tested 3-2-1 rule with modern advances, organizations can build a highly resilient backup architecture that strengthens their overall cybersecurity posture.
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Backup Central, Monday, June 2nd, 2025
How to Get Real ROI from Backups: Beyond Disaster Recovery
Getting meaningful ROI from your backups has been the holy grail of data protection for decades. For too long, backup systems have been viewed as necessary evils - expensive insurance policies that drain budgets without delivering tangible returns until disaster strikes.
more → Search Data Backup, Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Cyber Resilience Now A Top Priority For Backup Platforms
The latest updates to backup platforms such as HYCU, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik and Keepit bolster cyber resilience in both technology and customer readiness.
more → Cyber Defense Magazine, Saturday, April 19th, 2025
Have The Last Word Against Ransomware With Immutable Backup
With incidences of ransomware on the rise, nobody should even be thinking that an attack is something that couldn't happen to them, let alone speak those words into existence.
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Solutions Review, Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Why The 3-2-1 Backup Rule Remains A Cornerstone Of Cybersecurity In 2025
Daniel Pearson, the CEO at KnownHost, explains why the 3-2-1 backup rule is just as important to cybersecurity today as it was when it was first created. T
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Search Data Backup, Monday, April 14th, 2025
Backup Scheduling Best Practices To Ensure Availability
For daily work files, databases and mission-critical systems and data, the more frequent the backup, the better. But how often should you back up all your data?
more → techradar, Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Immutable Backup Storage Is The Best Protection Against Ransomware, But Many Businesses Don't Have It
Keep your data safe and unecrypted
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Security Boulevard, Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Four Tips For Optimizing Data Backup And Recovery Costs
The best data backup and disaster recovery strategy does more than just optimize an organization's ability to restore operations quickly following a disruption. It also maximizes the bang that the business gets for its backup and recovery investments.
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How-To Geek, Monday, April 7th, 2025
Don't Only Trust The Cloud - Back Up Your Save Data
It's always good to back up your data in multiple places, and save data from video games is no exception.It's always good to back up your data in multiple places, and save data from video games is no exception.
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Solutions Review, Monday, April 7th, 2025
Why Cybercriminals Are Targeting Your Backups And How To Be Prepared
Most organizations believe they're prepared for ransomware attacks with a simple strategy: maintain good backups and use them to restore systems if cybercriminals encrypt their data.
more → Solutions Review, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
World Backup Day Quotes From Experts For 2025
Solutions Review's Executive Editor Tim King compiled this roundup of World Backup Day quotes from experts for 2025, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market.
more → Search Data Backup, Monday, March 31st, 2025
10 Multi-Cloud Backup Considerations For Admins
Using a multi-cloud data backup strategy can be good for data protection, but make sure that the providers are a good fit for your business first.
more → techradar, Monday, March 31st, 2025
World Backup Day 2025: All The News, Updates And Advice From Our Experts
We take a look back at World Backup Day 2025
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, March 31st, 2025
World Backup Day 2025: A Call To Protect Your Most Valuable Asset - Data
On World Backup Day, experts urge organizations to safeguard their data from loss, cyberattacks, and costly downtime.
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Backup Central, Monday, March 31st, 2025
The Reality Of Cloud Vs Tape For Active Archives
When someone puts 'cloud vs tape' in a headline, they've immediately lost me. Why? Because it's a false dichotomy that misunderstands how modern storage works. Let me explain.
more → Security Boulevard, Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Lessons From The Field, Part III: Why Backups Alone Won't Save You
It's been a while since I've put some thoughts together for the CISO Blog, and with World Backup Day coming at the end of this month, the timing felt right. I've mentioned in the past that backups are crucial to keeping your data preserved and safe. But a backup is only as good as your ability to recover it-and that depends on security, testing, and a solid response plan.
more → Backup Central, Monday, March 10th, 2025
Is Tape Backup Really Dead? 4 Reasons It's Still Thriving
Tape backup is not dead. In fact, more tape is sold today than ever before. This might come as a shock to those who've been told tape is obsolete technology that's been replaced by fancy disk-based systems and cloud storage
more → StateTech, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Synthetic Full Backups: How They Enhance Backup And Recovery
A synthetic full backup records incremental changes to create a complete backup without requiring constant, full backups of an entire system.
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The Backup Wrap-Up, Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Hide Your Backup Disk From Ransomware
In this episode of The Backup Wrap-up, W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss critical strategies for securing your backup disk against cyber threats.
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Virtualization&Cloud Review, Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
Step-By-Step Checklist For Disaster-Proofing Backups
"Don't think your company's too small to be cyberattacked, because you're not," says disaster recovery expert Joey D'Antoni. "It just means they haven't decided to try you yet."
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Backup Central, Monday, February 17th, 2025
What Are Passkeys? The Next Evolution In Backup Security
If you're still protecting your backup system with just usernames and passwords, you're practically begging for trouble.
more → CLOUDPro, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
IT Professionals Are Losing Sleep Over Data Backups - Here's How To Make Sure You're Prepared
Experts told ITPro that businesses must adhere to stringent backup practices
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Backup Central, Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
How To Pick The Best Cloud Backup: A No-Nonsense Guide
Choosing the best cloud backup requires more than just picking the first solution you find with good marketing. After decades in the backup business, I can tell you that getting this decision right matters more than ever, especially with today's cybersecurity threats.
more → ComputerWeekly, Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Backup Technology Explained: The Fundamentals Of Enterprise Backup
We look at backup and its role in enterprise data protection, including what to backup and how often, RPO and RTO, full and incremental, and if backups can be replaced by snapshots
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Backup Central, Monday, January 6th, 2025
Getting Your Backup Into The It Budget: A Matter Of Survival
Let's face it - nobody dreams of becoming a backup administrator. While other IT specialties get the glory and the budget, backup teams often get the leftovers. But getting backup into the IT budget isn't just about having nice tools - it's about business survival.
more → StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Data Protection As A Service Market Worth $74.91 Billion By 2030
The global Data Protection as a Service Market will grow to USD 74.91 billion by 2030 from USD 26.04 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 19.2 % from 2024 to 2030
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The Backup Wrap-Up, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Surviving A Data Center Flood: Real Recovery Stories
Get ready for one of the most compelling disaster recovery stories we've ever featured on the Backup Wrap-up. (It's a very popular episode from a few years ago.)
more → Backup Central, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Hurricane Recovery: A Backup Admin's War Story
There's nothing quite like hearing disaster recovery stories from someone who's been in the trenches. A few years ago I spoke with a backup administrator who faced every IT pro's nightmare - a hurricane that flooded their data center and their Iron Mountain facility simultaneously.
more → Storage Switzerland, Monday, December 2nd, 2024
Backups Alone Are Not DR
While backups are a critical component of data protection and are perceived as a cost-effective way to ensure data availability, backup alone are not DR.
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HelpNet Security, Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Five Backup Lessons Learned From The Unitedhealth Ransomware Attack
The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth earlier this year is quickly becoming the healthcare industry's version of Colonial Pipeline, prompting congressional testimony, lawmaker scrutiny and potential legislation. 
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ITProToday, Monday, November 11th, 2024
Why SaaS Backup Matters: Protecting Data Beyond Vendor Guarantees
As businesses rely more on SaaS applications, internal backup strategies are essential for safeguarding data against accidental deletion, ransomware, and vendor issues.
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InfoQ, Monday, November 11th, 2024
Uber Achieves Significant Storage Savings With Myrocks Differential Backups
Uber has written about successfully implementing a new differential backup system for its distributed databases, which led to storage cost reductions of up to 70%.
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Security Boulevard, Monday, November 11th, 2024
Go Without MFA Or Data Backups: Which Is Worse?
CISOs often face high-stake decisions. Imagine this hypothetical scenario: due to a critical system failure, a financial institution is forced to make a trade-off between two less-than-ideal options: go without multi-factor authentication (MFA) and all second-factor verifications for a month, or go a month without data backups.
more → Search Data Backup, Monday, October 28th, 2024
How To Improve Backup Performance
Achieving and maintaining optimal backup performance is a continuous process that requires a proactive approach to monitoring, analysis and optimization.
more → The Backup Wrap-up, Monday, October 28th, 2024
Backup From Hell: SMB vs 400TB (44 Minutes)
Experience the backup from hell in this eye-opening episode of The Backup Wrap-up. What started as a straightforward 40TB backup spiraled into a months-long battle with 400TB of data, failing tape drives, and directories containing hundreds millions of files.
more → Backup Central, Monday, October 28th, 2024
The Backup That Would Not End
When a client asked me to back up two Synology boxes totaling 'about 40TB,' I had no idea I was about to experience the backup from hell.
more → Tecmint, Monday, October 21st, 2024
Rsnapshot: A Powerful Backup Tool Based On Rsync
Rsnapshot is an open-source local/remote filesystem backup utility written in Perl, which leverages the power of Rsync and SSH to create scheduled incremental backups of Linux/Unix filesystems.
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Backup Central, Monday, October 14th, 2024
The Dangers Of Consolidating Backup Systems: What You Need To Know
The backup industry is undergoing a significant transformation, with major players consolidating through mergers and acquisitions.
more → SiliconANGLE, Thursday, October 10th, 2024
The Last Line Of Defense: How Backup Solutions Protect Against Ransomware
As cyber extortion continues to plague businesses of all sizes, advanced backup solutions for ransomware are more critical than ever. The shift from traditional backup methods to more secure, scalable systems is shaping the future of cybersecurity.
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Backup Central, Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
Preventing A Rogue Administrator: Lessons From A Real-World Incident
As an IT professional, you might think the biggest threats to your organization come from external sources. But what if the call is coming from inside the house? In this post, we'll explore the very real danger of rogue administrators and how to prevent them from wreaking havoc on your systems.
more → Backup Central, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Designing An Effective Backup Strategy For Ransomware Protection
In today's cybersecurity landscape, having a robust backup strategy for ransomware is no longer optional - it's a necessity.
more → DataCenter Knowledge, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
The Pros And Cons Of Public Cloud Storage For Data Center Backups
Is public cloud storage the right solution for your data center backups? Weigh the benefits of flexibility and cost savings against the potential risks.
more → The Futurum Group, Wednesday, September 18th, 2024
Google Expands Cloud Backup Services With Vault For Secure Data Retention
Google has expanded its Cloud Backup service with a vault offering, strengthening its data protection and cyber recovery competencies.
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CIO, Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
CIOs Eye SaaS Backup Plans Post-Crowdstrike
More comprehensive vendor risk management practices and 'backup as a service' are two ways IT leaders are looking to better protect against SaaS incidents impacting their business.
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Analytics Insight, Thursday, August 15th, 2024
Best Practices For Data Backup And Recovery
Essential best practices for data backup and recovery: safeguard your digital assets
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
Enterprise Backup And Recovery Software Solutions
I&O leaders are challenged to protect and recover critical business applications and data from multiple threats.
more → CIO, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
LTO Technology: One Of The Most Enduring - And Most Effective - Ways To Protect Your Data From Cybercrime
Linear Tape-Open (LTO) not only reads and writes data faster than disk, but also creates an airgap that is impassable for cybercriminals.
more → Search Data Backup, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
12 Common Virtual Machine Backup Mistakes
Despite an administrator's best efforts, virtual machine backups can fail. Determine the cause of the failure and modify the VM backup strategy to prevent future mistakes.
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