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08Oct2018
Three ways to protect your customer’s on-premises data with Azure
I am going to spend a lot of time on this topic in the few next posts, because I think it is very important for service providers and consultants (which is a lot of my reader base)--we should all keep abreast of our options. In this series, I want to...
29Nov2017
Three ways to protect your customer’s on-premises data with Azure: Part 3 – Azure Site Recovery
In the previous two posts we looked at: Azure Backup (using the MARS agent) Azure Backup Server (free DPM server) Those two solutions are markedly different from one another, but they both basically provide some kind of backup. The former does only file, folder & system state information--no application data is...
28Nov2017
Three ways to protect your customer’s on-premises data with Azure: Part 2 – Azure Backup Server
In the previous post, we looked at Azure Backup using the MARS agent, which can only do file, folder & system state data, and must be configured on the local machine. As you may already be aware, there are no local backup copies in that solution--you would need to provide...
27Nov2017
Three ways to protect your customer’s on-premises data with Azure: Part 1 – Azure Backup with MARS
In this series we will explore three different Azure solutions, all of which are aimed at one objective: Protecting your organization's (or your customer's organization's) critical data. You might use just one of these, or any combination of them, in your own DR plan--but you will want to choose the right...
02Nov2017
Is Azure Backup as good as offline backup?
I am posing this question, not just for Azure Backup, but any cloud-based backup. Here's the question: Is Azure Backup (or any cloud-based backup for that matter) as good as having an offline backup? The Benefits of Azure / Cloud Backup Certainly one of the biggest benefits of a cloud-based backup is that...
14Sep2017
How to Setup and Configure Azure Backup for File, Folder and System State Protection
Until very recently, the Azure Backup agent only supported file and folder backup from an on-premises server to the cloud. We now have support for System State protection added to this list, so we will cover how to configure that today. Azure Backup also offers other ways to protect your...
11Jul2017
How to fix guest processing errors on Hyper-V virtual machine backups
So you setup a third party backup system, sticking mostly to defaults on the job settings, with "application aware" or "guest OS processing" enabled, in order to capture Hyper-V virtual machines, and keep their application data consistent (process database transaction logs, etc.) Or, perhaps you have migrated existing virtual machines...
11Apr2017
New ransomware variant also finds & deletes backups?!
I recently came across this forum thread on Veeam's website, which scared the crap out of me. Coincidentally, Veeam published this article the same day. If these reports are accurate, then it means most organizations have some work to do to better secure themselves against the latest emerging rasomware /...
02Mar2017