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 strategy. In which there are three or more backup cycles such as daily, weekly 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 a collection of data stored on (usually removable) non-volatile storage media for purposes of recovery…
In the recent posts, I shared about taking backup and restore of database and also discussed some of the issues I have seen in the customer environment and how I fixed those in Nimesa Software Nimesa uses cloud-native / storage native snapshot technology to provide the backup, backup copy to DR site, restore on primary,…
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…
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 the Microsoft SQL Database with the ZFS replication, For that, I set up the Ubuntu…
Changing the individual database recovery model is very simple with the Microsoft SSMS. But recently in one of our Nimesa customer environments, he had 200 databases in a non-production instance and all the databases are in the simple recovery model. That user wanted to do POC of Nimesa Application-aware backup and Point in time recovery…
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 doesnt support log backups. Simple recovery model database automatically reclaims the log space to keep…