Amazon EBS encryption offers a straight-forward encryption solution for your EBS resources that don’t require you to build, maintain, and secure your own key management infrastructure. It uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMK) when creating…
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…
AWS offers two main options for deploying SQL Server in the cloud – Elastic Compute Cloud and Relational Database Service. I lately read a few blogs and did some searches with both the types of deployment of SQL Server and…
Nimesa data protection for Pure Storage integrates tightly with Pure Storage’s snapshot, replication and clone capabilities. Nimesa enables admins to create fast, space-efficient, point-in-time virtual copies of applications and virtual machines that can be used as part of a backup…
In ubuntu 18.04 PostgreSQL is running on the default directory /usr/lib/postgresql/ and the data directory is ‘/etc/postgresql/10/main’ To get the data directory you can run To change the data directory, first, stop the PostgreSQL service I mounted a ZFS volume…
Backup rotation/retention scheme is the how long the backup is retained on the media, many techniques have evolved over time to balance the data retention and the restoration costs. Grandfather-father-son is a very common scheme used in the backup retention…
Amazon EBS enables users to backup volumes ar any time using EBS snapshots, Snapshots retain the data from all completed I/O operations, allowing you to restore the volume to its exact state at the moment before backup (referred to as…
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 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…
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