No matter how new or safe you believe your computer is, you must keep disaster prevention in mind when working with sensitive data. You should always create one or more backups of important files, ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

Disk-based backup has been making a name for itself this past year especially since costs continue to drop. SearchStorage.com's readers have come to us seeking answers on the best way to implement ...

The gospel of disk has been preached for so long now that disk seems to be the inevitable choice for backup technology. But observers throughout the tech world say there still are plenty of reasons to ...

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 ...

In most enterprises, disk is looked to as a cure for all your backup woes. The goal of adding disk to the process is to reduce backup windows, improve recovery windows and make the whole process more ...

For enterprises seeking to escape the challenges of managing and maintaining tape backup architectures, disk-to-disk backup has been nothing short of a godsend. By replacing tape with disk for nightly ...

In honor of last week’s World Backup Day, here are tips for acquiring hard or solid-state disks as replacements, for additional storage or for backup. First and foremost, if you are replacing your ...

Currently, we backup to tape nightly, but are planning to switch to backup to disk with tape going offsite weekly and monthly. Commvault Simpana will be configured to backup a variety of file sizes to ...

Taking another step into data storage, Microsoft on Friday unveiled software for backing up files on disk-based systems. The product, dubbed System Center Data Protection Manager, is designed to tempt ...

A couple of weeks ago, my Mac displayed an alert that said my Time Machine disk was damaged and I should repair or replace it as soon as possible. The first thing I tried was Disk Utility's First Aid ...