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Data plays a vital role in any successful business. Protect­ing this data is mission-critical, and it falls to database administrators (DBAs) to organize, maintain, and secure it. The most effective ...

In my line of work, a bad day at the office is when someone brings in a computer with a failed hard drive and no backup. Experience has turned me into a glass is half-full technician, reciting the ...

As a DBA, establishing a reasonable backup schedule for your databases can be a challenging project. It requires you to balance two competing demands: the need to take image copy backups frequently ...

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System malfunction or failure? Get the backups. Ransomware attack? Restore from backup and avoid paying the ransom. Catastrophic scenario (such as a data center fire)? Hope those backups were offsite.

Several scenarios and reasons exist for regularly backing up an Exchange Server database, from data corruption to accidentally deleting files to system crashes to cybersecurity attacks. Microsoft's ...

Were a midsize business with about 15tb of data to be backed up. We run two ml6000 lto4 library's with two head units per chassis and two backup servers with 6 md1000's that store our b2d2t topology.

[The following is excerpted from "Choosing and Implementing an Enterprise Database Encryption Strategy," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] A lot of ...

It is imperative to understand what would be at stake if your Exchange Server was compromised. Data is the primary at-risk component in these situations, but service interruptions also hamper business ...