Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups. As part of my operational readiness preparation, I want to ...

I'm aware of the risks of USN rollback when restoring from a DC snapshot. However, if there are no other functioning domain controllers (imagine that a malicious or incompetent operator has ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget. The public cloud ...

Instant Recovery Software (IRS). This is a technology that is related to Light Virtualization (LV), but the actual implementation varies between the two technologies. Within this review, I will ...

Time Machine is a great way to back up your computer, and How-To Geek points out if you're using a Mac laptop with Time Machine enabled, there's a local backup file packed with previous versions of ...

Few things can put a business at greater risk than the failure to conduct frequent data and/or system backups. Most backup utilities approach the task from one of two angles– some concentrate on ...