Ransomware is one of the prominent malware threats that many online businesses face with outdated updates and fewer security tools. Over the past few years, the number of ransomware attacks has increased by 148%. As per the Business Insiders report, the largest ransomware payout was made by an insurance company in 2021. Here is our list […]
How to Protect your Backups from Ransomware
The Best PostgreSQL Backup Tools
PostgreSQL is a highly stable, open-source relational database that helps decipher complex queries using JSON and SQL command language. The companies trust the relational database management system over the others due to its excellent features and robust performance. It is also backed by 20+ years of development by an open-source community and helps solve complex […]
The Best Virtual Machine Backup Software
Today, most business networks use virtual machines due to their flexibility and cost effectiveness. Having a Virtual Machine in an organization can help save on cost, enhance productivity, and ease provisioning. There are many reasons why companies consider virtual machines (VM) as a great resource. Over time, the use of virtual machines has increased. It […]
The Best Tools for Hyper-V Backups
Losing data can lead to a lot of inefficiencies and monetary loss within a business. Backing up physical data has been a mainstay of the business world ever since the age of floppy disks; however, many companies neglect the VM side of things. Here is our list of the best Hyper-V backup tools: If a […]
The Best Tools for VMware Backups
Security is the name of the game in the business world these days. But, unfortunately, this trend isn’t occurring simply due to the increased frequency of cyberattacks (though that contributes) and the chances of hardware failure. Here is our list of the best VMware backup software: If you’ve got a storage array of VMs (Virtual […]
The Best Disk Imaging Software
This list gives you comprehensive information about each tool and will guide you to choose a tool that fits your needs.
The Best Patch Management & Monitoring Software
Patch Management Software not only helps keep you systems up-to-date but also saves your Company from Potential Threats, Ransomware, Viruses and Exploits that could cripple your infrastructure. As of late, Ransomware has taken down Government, Educational and even Health Care systems to a halt – Locking Files and systems down due to either User Error […]
The Best Storage Monitoring & Management Software and Tools
Storage Management Software is a system that administers and protects a data storage device together with the data it contains. Storage management systems increase capacity and performance by offering data compression capabilities and data migration tools that put infrequently used data in low-cost storage locations. Here is our list of the best storage management and […]
Ftape configuration
Believe it or not, we have been struggling for almost four years to get our tape drive to work. We originally had an FC-20 with a 768 meg native 3020 Colorado tape drive. By the time the kernel and ftape had caught up to our model, we had replaced it with an Iomega Ditto Max […]
Scheduling backup of directories with tar and cron:
Tar is quite useful for copying directory trees, and is much more powerful than cp. To copy directory /home/myhome/myimportantfiles to /share/myhome/myimportantfiles: cd /home/myhome/myimportantfiles tar -cvf – . | tar -C /share/myhome/myimportantfiles/ -xv To schedule this to happen every day at 1am: crontab -e vi will run. If you are unfamiliar with vi, push ‘i’ to […]
Simple multi-tape backup with tar / Standby File/Print Server
We have a share available via NFS called share. All of our software, documents, versions of websites are on this share. It doesn’t contain any live systems stuff, but it is quite large. We bought a 15/30 gig DLT drive for cheap on Ebay, and some used DLT tapes to go with it. Many of […]
SYSLINUX
[Updated 8/27/02] SYSLINUX is a bootloader for Linux using MS-DOS floppies. It is good to learn how to create your own SYSLINUX recovery diskettes for disaster recovery. [On a related topic, check out SuperRescue CD. SuperRescue is an iso image you can burn to a CD. The CD is bootable and has a suite of […]
Quickie backup over the net with GNU tar
If you want to back up a bunch of files over a network (or locally), one approach is to go into the directory you want to back up, and execute: tar cvpf – . | tar xpv -C /share/backupetc092901 This will save permissions, as well as grab hidden files, dates, symbolic links, /dev stuff, etc. […]
How to implement RAID 5 and RAID 1 with NT Server
Note: There is a much more current article on how to do this here. We have five hard drives, two SCSI controllers, and an external drive cabinet: (1) 3 Gig IDE in the CPU cabinet hooked up to the primary IDE channel (1) 4 Gig SCSI hard drive in the CPU cabinet hooked up to […]
Recovering an NT System With an Emergency Repair Disk
To use the Emergency Repair Disk we created in this article, you need to boot with the three NT setup disks that can be created by running winnt32: If you don’t have an NT box, you can use the NT distribution cd from MS-DOS or a Windows 95/98 command prompt and run winnt /ox. Boot […]
Using Tar to Upgrade Your Hard Drive
This is a story about a whale. No!! This is a story about making my computer happy. A few days ago, I started having weird problems on my main workstation, srv-1. My system would lock up completely. Only by pushing the reset button could I wake her from her slumber. I reseated all of the […]
The Archive Bit And Incremental Backups on Windows Filesystems
The archive bit is used to determine what files have been backed up up previously on a Windows filesystem. The bit is set if a file is modified. A backup program can then clear the bit when it does a full backup. This allows the backup program to do an incremental or differential backup that […]
Creating a Recovery Partition
If you have the ability to stick a second drive in your workstation or server, it can make a great recovery tool. True, there are a lot of CD recovery distributions out there, but the approach we use here will actually fit on a 100 Meg Zip disk. Further, it is portable to virtually any […]
Software RAID on Windows 2003 – Part1
There are 5 parts to this article: Part1 – Part2 – Part3 – Part4 – Part5 This series of articles will show how to set up software RAID on a Windows Server 2003 system. Before you do anything with your disks, make sure you have a good backup. Please read our terms of use. We […]
Using Arkeia for Linux Backup
If you have a single Linux file server that you want to back up, and maybe a client or two, you can use the full featured Arkeia for free. This is particularly useful for home use, or if you are migrating to Linux in your shop and wish to just back up one server. Arkeia […]
