Long story, but I've been tasked with finding a backup solution for a couple of old physical Windows Server 2003 boxes. The idea is to have backups that I can then convert to virtual in a DR event.

Microsoft says that some applications might fail to backup data using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) after applying the June 2022 Patch Tuesday Windows updates. The issue occurs due to security ...

Discover how Proxmox Backup Server redefines data protection with features like incremental backups, deduplication, and file-level recovery.

When you’ve built a powerful Proxmox rig outfitted with your favorite virtual machines and containers, the last thing you’d want is a botched experiment to render everything unusable. While there are ...

Over the next several weeks I’ll be blogging about significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that you can decide whether the supplied ...

Windows Server Backup is available on all versions of Server 2008, including 64-bit versions. Install it as a feature via Server Manager, either interactively or with the following command: ...

While we haven’t compared VMware backup solutions one to one, it is easy to understand based on features. Offers native backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V, or AWS environments, i.e., work over ...

Before starting the procedure, it’s a must, non-negotiable step to create a backup of your server to prevent data loss. This includes system files, installed roles, configuration files, and user data.

As someone who writes about a wide variety of technical subjects, I maintain a fairly extensive lab environment so I can experiment with the techniques that I write about. Unfortunately, my lab ...

In the first part of this series, I talked about the procedures that I used to prepare a physical Windows Server 2016 machine for a storage refresh. In this installment, I want to continue the ...