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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…