Multiple storage architectures exists, one of them is Object storage., Object Storage aka Object-based storage that manages the data as objects, unlikely to the other architectures like File ( which manages as file hierarchy ) and Block ( which manages…
Introduction to Server-Less Serverless computing is a method of providing backend services on an as-used basis. A serverless provider allows users to write and deploy code without the hassle of worrying about the underlying infrastructure. A company that gets backend…
Typical MariaDB Server installations have the MySQL data directory located in The data directory contains the data of the databases and the size increases depending on the usage. In this post, you will learn how to move the MariaDB…
Data Protection (Backup and DR) describes the process of creating and storing the data that can be used to recover against data loss A proper backup copy is stored in a separate system or medium, such as tape, from the…
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…
Nimesa supports application-consistent backup of MSSQL databases with the recovery options from instance to table level. Recently we launched the MySQL application consistent backup to the beta customers Application consistency or transaction consistent backups of the Microsoft centric applications like…
A developer identified an attack in his dev virtual machine running on datacenter, and also he found an HTML file named READ_TO_DECRYPT in his desktop Read Protect or Ship Bitcoin or lose data – Ransomware attack After reading that HTML…
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most popular enterprise database, a lot of enterprises run MS SQL Server for their mission-critical applications SQL Server database management engine is fast and stable, available on both Linux and Windows platforms and…
In today’s data center industry there is a misconception about the storage snapshot as a Backup. The main one is storage snapshots are not backup, they are just point-in-time copies. It’s unclear from where the idea came from. Backup is…
In recent posts, we have discussed adding your AWS account to Nimesa to do the data protection. In this post, we will discuss application-consistent backups of your MySQL on EC2 instance. To know to install MySQL Server on Amazon Linux…
In this post, we will see how to install MySQL server on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 and configure the security group to access from your desktop The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by…
In my previous post, we discussed the creation of IAM user and the privilege required to protect your AWS EC2 instances. In this post, we will discuss to register the AWS account with Nimesa. Open the Nimesa web console (…
In my previous blog, I discussed how to set up the ZFS File system in Ubuntu 18.04 and setup ZVOL for Microsoft SQL Server Databases In this post let’s discuss on how to set up the Disaster recovery plan for…
When I am setting up the Disaster recovery plan for the MS SQL Databases in ZFS Volume, I faced permission issue while running ZFS send/receive command from a non-root account So my sender is vignesh and the receiver is ubuntu…
In this post, we will see how to install ZFS on Ubuntu and present a ZVOL through iSCSI protocol to a Windows Machine for SQL Database First I created a Linux Ubuntu x64 Virtual Machine and installed the Ubuntu 18.04…
Recently we faced an issue in our product Nimesa Cloud Data protection, our QA Director raised a bug that Nimesa is listing two networks during Virtual Machine clone but while editing the VM in vSphere web client he was getting…
While testing our product Nimesa with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 on Microsoft Windows 2019 i hit with some scenarios my nodes in SQL cluster has some shadows, i wanted to check in all the machine and delete the shadows.…
One of our Nimesa customers get this error on Event Logs, CheckTokenMembership. hr = 0x80070005, Access is denied when he takes a consistent backup using Nimesa. We found out this error is from VSS Requestor, This happens when UAC(user account…
Nimesa Software based Data protection and copy data management solution supports Microsoft SQL Server full backup and log backup, recently we got a customer request why Nimesa is skipping the Simple recovery model database during log backup Simple recovery model…
Storage capacity consumed by multiple unnecessary data copies costs businesses as much as $44 billion annually, according to IDC. It estimates that redundant copies of the same data ( copy data) account for more than 60% of enterprise disk storage…
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…
VMware Virtual Machine snapshots should not be used as a primary backup, Virtual Machine snapshots are good for the shorter period. you can create VM snapshot before applying hotfix and delete after successful patching. When VM snapshots are created the…
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…
Cloud Server/network outages are wrecking balls, and it can happen with a dominant market player like the Amazon Web Services (AWS), The latest is an extensive outage brought on by a human error at an AWS data center in Virginia.…
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume – there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any…
Recently, An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations. when attackers breached the network of Hancock Health, a regional hospital in the city of Greenfield, Indiana.…
VSS hardware provider can be initiate and test using DiskShadow Commands Open the Powershell and Enter Diskshadow PS C:\Users\Administrator> diskshadow Microsoft DiskShadow version 1.0 Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation On computer: WIN-VigneshDev, 5/22/2015 12:06:35 AM DISKSHADOW> List the Hardware Providers…
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,…
Remote SSH to the Linux servers will get disconnected for multiple reasons, if you have a huge dump of MySQL database and want to restore the database using the MySQL command in the background and should not affect if your…
Sometimes the services which are intended to run all the time will stop for some reason, the server or the tool need to react to this situation to keep the downtime minimal In this post, we will create a script…
What is Vulnerability Scanning Vulnerability scanning is the process of inspecting the security weaknesses that exist in the software. With a good vulnerability scanner, you can bring to light the security, licensing, and code quality issues that may affect the…
Zappa makes it super easy to build and deploy server-less, event-driven Python applications (including, but not limited to, WSGI web apps) on AWS Lambda + API Gateway. Think of it as “serverless” web hosting for your Python apps. That means…
First Launch the EC2 Instance from the AMI Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type After Launching the EC2 instance, connect to the instance using the key pair, to know the default username for each operating system in the…
By default Amazon doesn’t enable root access to the users, This is a very important security best practise, admins, are supposed to connect using a secure key pair to log in as ec2-user ( Read more here about the default…
A snapshot is a copy of an Amazon EBS volume at a point in time. EBS snapshots include a Volume ID Property which is from which the snapshot was created. However, the volume ID of some volume will be set…
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