We're having an issue with a cloud provider we're currently testing. They are offering a backup solution based on Avamar. Basically, they are running an instance of Avamar in their part of the cloud ...

You can never be rich enough or thin enough, and you can never have enough storage. I’ve been playing with Iomega’s brand new StorCenter ix2-200, a 4TB network-attached storage/home server that ...

Explores how unsecured cloud backups expose data, lessons from the EY incident, and steps to close the backup security gap.

Here's the deal; we want to set up a separate network on the ESX (4.1) hosts for backups. I go through the typical exercise of creating a new vswitch, adding the appropriate nic, and assigning the ...

Network devices control how traffic can travel across the network and have security monitoring features. Refine and preserve your settings by managing network device configurations. Network devices ...

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...

John Manning pointed us to this Dantz Forums thread which discusses why you need to login as a root user to backup to networked volumes. Note: "OS X does not allow Retrospect (which runs as root) to ...