Everyone is aware that whether you are using on-premise or public cloud you need backup of your Virtual Machines or cloud instances. You can read more about the types of backup here This script creates the application consistent snapshot of the EBS volume attached with the EC2 Instance by freezing the filesystem like EXT4 and…
Who uses MongoDB? Based on the online resource* there are 37,658 Companies using MongoDB, MongoDB is most often used by companies with 10-50 employees and 1M-10M dollars in revenue, and the market share is about 5.0% and also many financial services using the MongoDB Data is always critical whether its RDBMS or NoSQL or Flat…
Backup applications for the Virtualized environment back up the Virtual Machine at the image level and are not aware of what is going on inside the installed guest operating system. So before you back up your Virtual Machines you should ensure they are quiesced so they are in a consistent state to be backed up….
If you’re looking into data protection solutions you’re probably have heard the phrase “3-2-1 backup”. You’ll hear it from most IT consultants, professionals as well as many backup vendors and admins. Every admin should have backups. This 3-2-1 principle works for any virtual environment regardless of the hypervisors you are running (VMware, Hyper-V or whatever). and…
Data loss can be a common experience of computer users; a 2008 survey found that 66% of respondents had lost files on their home PC. A backup refers to the copying into an archive file of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. If a computer…
Shadow Copies are possible for almost all volumes and not “all volumes”. There are few cases which the shadow copy may not work Enough Space The shadow storage volume must contain enough free space. At the very minimum you need at least 300 MB or so, for a single shadow copy, for multiple shadow copies, the…
Inconsistent Backup The oldest type of backup probably not consistent. The process of taking the backup was so simple, backup application starts at the beginning of a file structure and copies all of the data until it reaches the end, resulting in a backup (Inconsistent). The reason which can make this backup inconsistent is that…