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October 2008
Encrypted image backups open to new attack
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
By John E. Dunn , TechWorld , 10/03/2008 Bitmaps stored inside encrypted backup files could be vulnerable to a sophisticated 'comparison' attack, ...
September 2008
Online Data Backup Can Save the Day
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
By Cian Molloy With all the online data backup services, your data is doubly encrypted -- so while the service provider might be able to see the name of ...
Saved by SaaS
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
He chose Verio Inc., a software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup provider. For US$29 per location per month, The Body Shop has automatic backup of all its disk ...
Guide to computer backup plans
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
"Your best bet is to be a regular backup-er," said Dan Ackerman, senior editor at technology Web site CNET. "Much like flossing or changing the oil in your ...
Backup a disaster for local business
Australian Techworld - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Half of local businesses responding to the survey said they do not backup all of their virtualised systems. Australian respondents blamed a lack of ...
Lost Backup Data Highlights Information Security Risks
IDM.net.au - Surry Hills,NSW,Australia
... their details exposed during a data breach in February this year when unencrypted backup tapes were stolen from a van en route to a storage facility. ...
Lessons Learned: This Time, New Orleans VARs Were Ready
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
This time, they were better able to help customers backup systems and prepare their businesses for the possibility of an emergency. ...
Carbonite glitch disconnects users from hosted backup service
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
March 13, 2008 (Computerworld) More than 1100 users lost their connection to Carbonite Inc.'s online backup service earlier this week at the moment the ...
Backups and Data Safety: Familiar Computing Advice
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
By Scott A. May The biggest disadvantage to external hard drive backups is the fact that they typically remain with the host computer. ...
August 2008
Backups Gone Badly
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Late one Friday night, while working with the database administrators to perform an upgrade and backup, a typical Colorado Springs storm blew in. ...
What's the best way to backup
Search Storage - USA
In concept, the ideas are simple, although implementing an efficient and effective set of backup operations can be difficult. The term 'backup' has become ...
Backing up the edge
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Thanks to remote data replication and disk-based backup technologies, the data center is reasserting control over branch-office backups. ...
Time Machine users get "Error occurred creating backup directory"
MacFixIt (subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
Some Time Machine users who are using Time Capsule have run into problems in which Time Machine does not create backup directories and exits with an error ...
Four reasons to validate your backup processes
TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
When is the last time you asked WHY you perform backups. Those tapes sitting in off-site storage might just cause you and the other members of IS–as well as ...
Data backups - a practical overview
E-consultancy - London,UK
It's a painful experience that can be quite costly and for many, it serves as the impetus to develop a data
July 2008
COMMENT: Backup is boring but essential
Pocket-lint.co.uk - UK
We have featured many backup solutions here on Pocket-lint over the last few years and new products appear every month. There are stalwart providers and ...
Thieves pilfer backup tapes holding 2M medical records
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Brian Fonseca slowmover says: If Dr. Goldschmidt is confident that the data is safe why would they stop transporting backup data of site. There. ...
Another stolen backup tape
Blocks & Files - London,UK
A Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) unencrypted backup tape containing financial data for 458 New Hampshire residents has been stolen and exposed them to identity ...
Focus on restore, not backup
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Everyone always worries about backup, backup, backup. Guess what? None of your users, or managers for that matter, care one bit about backup. ...
PC can't read Mac-formatted backup drive
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
But that doesn't work with the 160-gigabyte external drive I use to back up my MacBook; my Windows laptop doesn't even recognize the external drive when ..
Opinion: Make sure your customers have backup
Reseller News - New Zealand
As against: I'm hurting but when you look at it, the only person able to do a backup was me! Now, I do think there are some very unusual circumstances where ...
Ironclad Windows backup on a budget
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Creating an effective backup for Windows is a challenge -- largely because the OS lacks a powerful, simple tool like Linux's dd, for example. ...
Reviewing my backup strategy - and a backup horror story
TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
Every so often, I review and revamp my backup strategy. Although many would disagree with me, I've avoided tape backups for years. ...
June 2008
Time Machine flaws raise reliability questions
Baltimore Sun - United States
That's why Apple developed the automated backup feature Time Machine, introduced with Mac OS X Leopard. In concept Mac users need only attach a spare hard ...
Types of Backup and Data Recovery Options
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Backup allows you to have some of the preventive measures of data loss. The more and regular you backup, the less you would need data recovery tools. .
Q: Can you give me good advice on choosing an online backup service?
KTAR.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Question: I want to start backing up my computer using one of those online backup companies, but the prices and options are overwhelming. ...
Reducing Backup Windows Part III
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
In this third segment on reducing backup windows, the focus will be on getting rid of the data that no longer needs to be backed up. ...
The Essentials Of Backup & Storage
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Power backup? While these are all key components in any enterprise, none is as important as the information that the enterprise generates. ...
Don't leave Disaster Recovery and Backup to chance!
ITProPortal - London,UK
Data backup and replication are two solutions that are essential to most SME's disaster recovery plans. When performing backup and replication, ...
Opinion: Recovering backup data stored on disk
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Jerome Wendt June 5, 2008 (Computerworld) The introduction of disk as the primary target in the backup process is prompting companies to breathe a little ...
Top Backup Problems & How To Avoid Them
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Here are a few key backup problems SMEs face and ways either to avoid them or solve them. Today, SANs, offsite storage, and virtual machines have all ...
May 2008
Speed's Dead
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
As we talk to customers throughout the storage community about backup priorities a surprising trend continues, the importance of shrinking the backup window ...
Data Backup and Replication
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Data-backup software tools create copies of data for safekeeping and store them on different media such as disks or tape, while replication refers to the ...
Why don't you back up your computer?
CNET Blogs - Cupertino,CA,USA
Most computer users know they should backup the files on their computer, yet many don't. Why not? Leo Notenboom raised this question recently, see Why don't ...
How to back up virtualised servers
Search Storage - USA
Doing full backups to tape for physical servers that host multiple VMs can consume excessive memory and CPU resources, congest network pipes, extend backup ...
Some online backup services insecure
Current IT news from heise online - London,UK
Some online backup services fail to provide adequate security, meaning attackers can read and even change the data being backed up or restored when it's ...
Is an online backup service OK for your data stockpiles?
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
The backup burden has eased considerably since he began
using EMC's Mozy storage-as-a-service offering, Grone says. The
Mozy online backup service has ...
How to improve disaster recovery plans
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Techniques including WAN optimization and appliance-based e-mail
backup are reducing recovery times, lowering costs and
most importantly, raising confidence ...
Opinion: Choosing the right backup interface
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Jerome Wendt May 16, 2008 (Computerworld) It is no secret
that disk is becoming the preferred media to use as a backup
target and disk-based backup ...
How not to improve backup performance
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
While such claims don't usually bother me, a vendor spam hit my
in-box this week touting an "up to 4X backup performance
improvement" with LTO4 tape drives ...
Microsoft Cuts Backup From Home Server Update
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Microsoft has quietly removed a
key backup feature from an upcoming update for Windows
Home Server, much to the frustration ...
Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
ZDNet Blogs - USA
Microsoft won't be delivering database backup as one of
the new features promised for the first "PowerPack" update for
Windows Home Server when it ships ...
WHS loses database backup feature expected to ship with
PP1
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
While users can still expect improved compatibility with 64-bit
Vista, a server backup and restore feature, and various
much-needed bug fixes, Microsoft has ...
Microsoft Says No Client Backup In SBS 2008
CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Microsoft on Friday announced it
won't be including client PC backup functionality when it
releases Small Business Server ...
Storage and backup services to generate US$ 188mn for US
ISPs by 2012
Connected Home News - Bristol,UK
May 9, 2008 – Storage and backup services are projected
to generate an additional US$ 188mn in subscription revenue for
US broadband service providers in ...
Bush Admin Fails to Backup Emails
Web Host Industry Review - USA
May 7, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Bush
administration admitted this week it does not possess the
backup tapes for administration emails sent ...
White House Fesses Up to Missing Data
InternetNews.com - USA
CIO admits three months of data can't be found on 2003 backup
tapes. But plenty of questions remain. By Judy Mottl: More
stories by this author: The White ...
Backup and the cloud
Blocks & Files - London,UK
Now there is another alternative to tape backup and
archive being pushed by disk backup and
Software-as-a-Service lovers, disk-to-cloud - we could call it
...
Missouri governor, aides accused of ordering e-mail purge
The Associated Press -
Matt Blunt or his top deputies ordered Missouri's backup
e-mail tapes to be destroyed to avoid complying with an
open-records request from The Associated ...
White House 'loses' five million emails
VNUNet.com - UK
A court has now given the Executive Office of the President
until 5 May to come up with a full account of its data backup
strategy, and to clarify the ...
April 2008
Backup Tapes With 2 Million Medical Records Stolen
Slashdot - USA
The University of Miami just made the theft public last week,
saying the thieves removed a transport case carrying the
school's six computer backup tapes. ...
Thieves pilfer backup tape holding 2M medical records
Computerworld -
Framingham,MA,USA
By Brian Fonseca April 24, 2008 (Computerworld) University of
Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup
tapes from its medical school that ...
Data storage, security and backup practices of US
medium-sized ...
Continuity Central (press
release) - Huddersfield,UK
"US MBs are primarily investing in software to backup PCs
and servers," Ms. McKenzie says. "Up to 90 percent of MBs stated
they use data backup and data ...
E-mail archiving - tape backup just doesn't cut it
anymore
ITWeb - Gauteng,South
Africa
[ 18 April 2008 ] - A recent IDC estimate puts total
person-to-person business e-mail messages sent worldwide in 2006
at nearly 22 billion messages a day. ...
Back up without crashing
NetworkWorld.com -
Southborough,MA,USA
The challenge is to choose the right virtual server backup
option: -- Traditional agent-based backup software, which
installs a software agent on each ...
Pros and cons of remote data backup service
TechRepublic -
Louisville,KY,USA
That's the title of the email I received from a new breed of
companies that are jumping onto the bandwagon offering remote
data backup and disaster recovery ...
Backup software is broken
Blocks & Files - London,UK
Why does backup software still have its obsession with
tape? The backup applications are riven through with the
assumption that the ultimate end-target is ...
Blog dialogue: Online vs. traditional backup
Search Storage - USA
At least traditional backup also come with peace of mind
that all backups are stored on company's own infrastructure. In
last few years, I tried over a ...
Five signs your backups are borked
Search Storage - USA
In spite of the latest wave of backup technology
advances, data backup is still the outsider in terms of
enterprise IT. But when the backup environment ...
March 2008
Death to Brick Level Backups!
Information Week Weblog -
Manhasset,NY,USA
Friends, readers, fellow backup geeks, lend me your
eyeballs. I come to bury mailbox by mailbox (brick level)
backups not to praise them. ...
US service tracks missing backup tapes
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Tom Jowitt, Techworld A new system has been launched in the
United States, which uses GPS technology to locate missing
backup tapes. ...
Choosing An Online Backup Provider For Your Smaller
Business
bMighty.com -
Manhasset,NY,USA
By Howard Marks Smaller businesses can backup data online
with ease. The challenge is in selecting from the host of
consumer, local, and commercial ...
Carbonite glitch disconnects users from hosted backup
service
Computerworld -
Framingham,MA,USA
By Brian Fonseca March 13, 2008 (Computerworld) More than 1100
users lost their connection to Carbonite Inc.'s online backup
service earlier this week at ...
Opinion: De-duplicating VMware
Computerworld -
Framingham,MA,USA
Backup is a particular case in point. Fundamentally,
there are two approaches to backup in VMware
environments: the first is to mimic the traditional ...
A third of businesses leave their back-up tapes in the
office ...
Edubourse.com (Communiqués
de presse) - Brie Comte Robert,France
By WebitPR (www.webitpr.com)
- March 10, 08 at 11:07 33% of small to medium sized enterprises
in the UK leave their back-up tapes in the office at the
end ...
February 2008
Adventures in tape backup
InfoWorld - San
Francisco,CA,USA
Some folks learn that one the hard way, such as our Off the Record
author, a college student working in a corporate IT shop who saw new
backup software as ...
Online Backup Nightmare: I've Lost Everything!
PC Magazine - USA
Our chief technology officer's quest for a cheap backup
solution proves that you really do get what you pay for. by Robyn
Peterson I'm a paranoid person. ...
When Good Intentioned Users Do Harm
InformationWeek -
Manhasset,NY,USA
The user decides they need to completely wipe their drive and
restore their data using their backup because they've
experienced a data loss situation. ...
So Much Data, and So Many Ways to Guard It
New York Times - United States
The trick is figuring out which backup provider offers the
right combination of services, support and price for you and
protects all the computers on your ...
White House e-discovery squeeze puts e-mail backup in focus
Computerworld -
Framingham,MA,USA
Osterman said the White House's legal problems over its inability to
recover e-mail from its own servers and backup systems may
jolt end-users into ...
CENTRAL OHIO SOURCE - The Daily Reporter, Inc.
The Daily Reporter, Inc.
For most small businesses, a tape back-up system is the most
common method used for storing records and files, but while
tapes are among the least expensive systems, they are seldom
user-friendly and can be cumbersome to operate. A new
Columbus-based company is developing what it hopes will be a
better, more cost-effective back-up system for small and
medium-sized businesses. 3X Systems,
located on Kinnear Road, is developing an online service through
a portable, all-in-one device that can be used by either by the
business itself or the company's information technology services
provider...
Doh! – I should have made a backup #2
InformationWeek -
Manhasset,NY,USA
I always thought system admin rule number 1 was "Run a backup
before you delete anything just in case you delete the wrong
thing" apparently Charter's ...
January 2008
SMB Security: A Harsh Lesson
InfoWorld - San
Francisco,CA,USA
Today, even the smallest business can go to an office-supply
store and get a USB-attached hard disk for quick backup.
If you haven't backed up your critical ...
Charter Accidentally Wipes 14K Email Accounts
Slashdot - USA
Slashdot dove into 503 and 500 errors a few minutes after
you posted that. by Stevyn (691306) I am one of those people
who uses Gmail as a backup betting ...
rsync: A Backup Strategy for Modern Times
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet - Darien,CT,USA
By Carla Schroder The use of hard drives for backups
is outpacing other forms of backup media by a country
mile. The largest IDE drive available right now ...
Doh! - I should have made a backup #1
InformationWeek -
Manhasset,NY,USA
I ran into a video on CNN today that is one of the clearest
arguments for a good backup scheme anyone could make.
As described in the report at ...
Congress questions security of backup tape sales
InfoWorld - San
Francisco,CA,USA
Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) has reopened an
interesting can of worms on Capitol Hill by sending a letter
to the Government Accountability Office ...
Backup Appliance Replication - Boon or Boondoggle
InformationWeek -
Manhasset,NY,USA
As de-duplicating backup appliances including those
from Sepaton, Quantum, Data Domain and FalconStor (including
OEMs from Copan to EMC and SUN) started to ...
Data Deduplication: Improving Backup Storage And
Bandwidth ...
Data Storage
Connection (press release) - USA
This strain often prompts companies to re-examine their
backup architectures. Many of these companies realize
that they have a tremendous amount of ...
Backup blues
SearchSecurity.com -
Needham,MA,USA
JC Penny is the latest merchant to lose a backup tape
containing the personal information of 650000 customers. How
does your firm store credit card data on ...
Can you restore a 6 year old backup?
Information Week
Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
In each case a midsize company tried to satisfy their data
retention policy by putting end of month backup tapes
on the shelf just in case the data on them ...
Missing backup tape prompts identity theft fears for
JC Penny ...
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
By SearchFinancialSecurity.com Staff GE Money, the firm
hired by JC Penny to run its credit card operations,
announced Thursday that it is missing a backup ...
GE Money Backup Tape With 650000 Records Missing At
Iron Mountain
InformationWeek -
Manhasset,NY,USA
Iron Mountain can't find a backup tape belonging to
GE Money that contains information on customers of JC Penny
and about 100 other retailers. ...
Data of 650000 customers of JCPenney, other retailers, at
risk ...
SC Magazine US - USA
The Social Security numbers of 150000 people were on the
backup tape, which vanished last October, according to
representatives from GE Money, which handles ...
WAN backups, archives and disaster recovery
Search Storage - USA
Backups, archives and disaster recovery serve
different storage purposes, but all three disciplines have
the same basic objective of data protection: ...
Online Backup Providers Opt For Disk Over Tape
Enterprise Storage Forum -
Darien,CT,USA
By Drew Robb After years of unfulfilled promise and false
starts, online backup has become one of the hottest
segments of the storage market, ...
Online backup services growth
IT Wales - Swansea,Wales,UK
"Online backup has become an attractive approach for
many customers, with the advent of cheaper broadband access,
users' greater comfort level with ...
December 2007
Backup And Archiving: A Perspective On The Future
(Requires Registration)
Data Storage Connection (press
release) - USA
With all eyes on the future, smart CIOs are taking a long,
hard look at their backup and archiving strategies–
and asking a lot of tough questions. ...
Data backup too simple to be ignored
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
By BILL HUSTED Years ago, I felt like a hypocrite for urging
readers to back up their computers. I didn't do it
very often myself. ...
DR And backup options
Search Storage - USA
Without a solid backup and disaster recovery plan,
you can sustain thousands of dollars' worth of downtime or
data loss. So what are the best technologies ...
Backup storage options
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Joe Kissell When you don't back up your data, you
choose to live life on the edge. A hefty power surge, faulty
software update, rampant virus, ...
Slapdash staff put corporate data at risk
VNUNet.com - UK
Pubs, bars or restaurant are cited as the most common
location, the study by online backup firm
Databarracks reported. More than three quarters (77 per
...
Defrag Still Speeds Backup Time
Earthtimes - London,UK
GLENDALE, CA -- 12/12/07 -- File fragmentation, especially
unchecked, can greatly slow backup procedures due to
the multiple I/Os necessary to retrieve data ...
PC owners fail to back up crucial files
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The research, conducted by
Tickbox.net
on behalf of online backup provider Carbonite, also
found that despite this high rate of data loss, 20 per cent
of ...
Choose the Right Backup for Your Business
PC World - USA
Companies often fail to appreciate a sound data backup
strategy until their data goes missing. Fortunately, good,
affordable backup technology is plentiful, ...
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
I have two suggestions: First, start encrypting your backups, at least those that you know will travel. No ifs, no buts, just do it. The second suggestion? ...
November 2007
A quarter 'never back up files'
Web User - London,UK
Despite two-thirds of people in the UK having lost files
after a hard drive failure or malware attack, 24 per cent of
us never back up our data. ...
Data backup, recovery becoming critical to all
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
"We have rejuvenated many IT deals by recovering the lost
source code of the final projects, in cases where no back
up was taken. ...
Slack backup a symptom of malware apathy
PC Advisor - London,UK
Even those of us who do back up regularly are often
guilty of 'safely' storing data on optical discs, right next
to our pcs. Which isn't much cop in the ...
Why users opt for online backup
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
The entry of heavyweights such as EMC and Symantec may spur
increased interest in online backup and recovery. By
Michele Hope Impending hurricanes and wild ...
RP market for backup software appliances untapped
Inquirer.net - Philippines
By Erwin Oliva SINGAPORE -- The Philippine market for
backup software appliances is largely untapped,
executives of a local firm and a software company said
...
Easy online backups
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Also, if you have a computer meltdown, you won't be able to
boot up your computer from an online backup. If you
want a bootable duplicate of your hard disk, ...
Backup and Recovery of Digital Automation
Radio World - Falls Church,VA,USA
Tape backups have long been used to preserve data.
Backup software is used to stream data from the hard
disk onto some sort of tape cartridge, ...
Hartford Life Insurance "misplaces" three
backup tapes
ZDNet Blogs - USA
According to Ohio's Tribune Chronicle: Hartford Life
Insurance this week notified the Ohio Department of
Insurance that it has misplaced three backup tapes
...
October 2007
Hartford Financial misplaces
back-up tapes with personal data on
...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The warning followed the loss of three backup tapes
containing the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and
driver's license numbers of customers of ...
Backup Versus Clone
The Mac Observer - USA
If you aren't following a regular and reliable backup
routine, you will lose important files. It's only a matter of
time. While a cloned hard drive does ...
Vista's Broken "Time Machine"
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
To reproduce all of "Time Machine's" functionality you need to
involve another Windows Vista component: Backup. Vista's
file and image backup utilities are ...
Maxell Reminds Businesses to
Backup Computer Files to Avoid Data
...
Business Wire (press release) - San
Francisco,CA,USA
The "Maxell Fall Backup Day" initiative purposefully
coincides with Daylight Saving Time "Fall Back" as the perfect
time to institute a back up of computer ...
200000 Notified of Lost
Backup Tape
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
The package was bound for a Pennsylvania company that the agency
uses for backup analysis. The agency believes the package
came unglued in transit, ...
Many US Consumers are Failing to Protect their Priceless
...
CNNMoney.com - USA
While US and Great Britain consumers are the most negligent at
35 percent neglecting to make backup copies of digital
content stored on their computer to ...
SQL Server
Backup Types
Microsoft Certified Professional - USA
Let's take a look at each of the backup types and how
they work. When you run a full database backup,
everything in your database is backed up. ...
There's no excuse to not
back up files
Boston Globe - United States
Many come with additional software for backup, privacy,
or drive management that you can install or set up, said Kelly.
Using a USB memory stick is another ...
Backup Tape Loaded With SSNs, Vacation, Lost
Wired Blogs - USA
By Rob Beschizza October 11, 2007 | 9:26:46 AMCategories:
Security That the tape at hand was loaded with personal info,
including social security numbers, ...
Lost
backup tape costs a week's vacation time
Inquirer - Harrow,England,UK
By Egan Orion: Thursday, 11 October 2007, 1:24 PM AN OHIO state
IT worker will lose a week of vacation time over a lost
backup tape, writes ComputerWorld. ...
Back-up software-based encryption purchase considerations
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The impact on your existing backup process can be
substantial. Many organizations choose instead to implement
encryption in the backup software running on a ...
Small firms failing to
back-up data
VNUNet.com - UK
"Despite a lot of time and effort in undertaking the back-up
process, older back-up technologies, such as tapes, have
considerable drawbacks," said Equiinet ...
CDP or dedupe? Tips to picking one over the other
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
October 04, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Continuous data protection
(CDP) software and deduplication appliances are becoming
integral parts of the backup process ...
Coppola loses data back-ups
VNUNet.com - UK
The home of Francis Ford Coppola was robbed over the weekend and
the theft of his backup device has left him facing the
loss of 15 years' worth of data. ...
September 2007
make
backup and recovery easier
Search Storage - USA
by Logan G. Harbaugh As data growth spirals, getting a handle on
your backup and recovery processes becomes even more
crucial. Without a proper strategy in ...
Know Your
Backup Was Successful
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Have you ever performed a backup and walked away thinking
it went smoothly, only to find out months later that something
was corrupted and the critical ...
Remote office
backup, archiving and disaster recovery for
...
SearchNetworking.com - Australia
Disk-based backup, also known as disk-to-disk (D2D), is
becoming a popular choice for local and remote backup,
replacing or supplementing tape-based backup. ...
Connecticut sues Accenture over stolen
backup tape
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... for putting sensitive data about hundreds of state
bank accounts and purchasing cards as well as 58 taxpayers on a
backup tape that was later stolen. ...
Minnesota workers had information on stolen
backup tape
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
By Mark Niquette They had to inform 584 county workers that
their Social Security numbers were on a backup computer
tape that had been stolen from a state ...
SMB Disaster Recovery Options Go Beyond Online
Backup
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
By Drew Robb The first article in this series highlighted how
SMBs can harness online backup as the cornerstone of
their disaster recovery (DR) actions. ...
Disaster recovery planning - choosing the right
back-up
strategy
IT Wales - Swansea,Wales,UK
In the event of an incident, the organisation can return its
systems to working order using the backup. With major
incidents, this level of protection can ...
Data
back-up software overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Back-ups are typically performed during off hours with few
personnel available, so back-up software often emphasises
the use of automation. ...
Best Practices:
Backup and Recovery Strategies
PC World - USA
Data protection and backup needs, since backing up
multiple servers, volumes, and desktop systems can quickly get
very complex. The cost of data storage has ...
Back up or learn lesson hard way
Australian IT - Australia
This is as tedious and painful as it sounds, and is part of the
reason why I didn't have a current backup when my disk
failed. Data that isn't backed up is ...
More personal data found on stolen Ohio government
backup tape
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
September 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A computer forensics
expert has uncovered an additional 106821 pieces of personal
data on a copy of a stolen backup ...
The
Backup Veteran: Tape
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Once a dominant technology for backup in data centers,
tape has become just one of the choices for storage, and it has
a number of critics who claim that ...
August 2007
Streamline Your File
Backups
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
We turned to several experts for their favorite tips on
streamlining the backup process. "Standardize the file
and folder structure of your computers," says ...
It's easy and relatively cheap: Back up your computer
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
With everyone from students and parents to small-business owners
and corporate executives capturing important moments in digital
files, data backup has ...
Data de-duplication changes economics of
backup
ARNnet - Australia
The ability to de-duplicate backup data -- that is, back
up or copy only unique blocks of data -- is rapidly changing the
economics of data protection. ...
How Can I Get
Backup Data Under Control?
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
We are all also very much aware of the headaches and additional
expense that accompany long-term retention of backup data
-- the capacity and logistical ...
DFA Law switches from tape to online
backup and recovery
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
UK legal firm DFA Law has switched from tape to online backup
and recovery to increase data security and reduce annual costs
by 2%. ...
Backup copies overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
But storage administrators are increasingly worried about the
recovery point -- how current is your backup? Skilled IT
personnel may be able to restore ...
Deliberating over data de-duplication
VNUNet.com - UK
1) software-only offerings: standalone backup software
products that de-dupe as they backup; these can often
replicate de-duped data across the WAN. ...
July 2007
The SMB backup dilemma
InfoWorld - USA
Choice is king, but with SMB data protection solutions
proliferating, confusion might just reign supreme...
Backups for Business: Online
Backup Services
PC World - USA
In earlier columns, I've discussed business backup
strategies using RAID (redundant array of inexpensive, or
independent, disks) and removable storage media ...
Data
Backup: Data deduplication overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
After a year, that 1 GB of wasted space can ultimately demand 52
GB on tape or other backup storage. Data deduplication is
a fairly recent technology that ...
The bonding between bandwidth,
backup and continuity
Continuity Central (press release) -
Huddersfield,UK
To ensure security, compliance and sidestep the challenges of
maintaining a network of tape libraries, many IT teams are
moving to centralised backup ...
Users want more disk
backup -- right now
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
July 25, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Fed up with slow tape backup
systems and under pressure by regulators and auditors to keep
data online and readily ...
Backup data on 365 000 patients stolen from car
InterGovWorld.com - Toronto,ON,Canada
About 365000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and
Washington are being notified about the theft of computer
backup data disks and tapes late ...
Opinion: Tape
backup is WORN (write once, read never)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
However, this may be largely an artifact of the still prevalent
practice of "backup as archive". In this situation, tape
essentially serves as "WORN" (write ...
Data
backup overview
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
This chapter covers the areas of disc, tape and remote data
backup, and explains the essential ideas used in successful
data backup strategies. ...
June 2007
The State of Data
Backup Protection
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
The only variation to this routine occurs when vendors try to
get us excited with new versions of the same backup
software or bigger, faster tape drives. ...
Meeting Data Security Requirements With Disk-Based
Backup
Data Storage Connection (press release) -
USA
Securing backup data has become an absolute requirement
for organizations of all sizes. New, sweeping government
regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, ...
A checklist for protecting personal data
iT News - Australia
On June 10, along with a US$200 radar detector, a "computer
backup device" was stolen out of the car of a college intern
working for a state agency in Ohio. ...
The intern, the data, the memo
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
So it's fair to ask why, six months later, a state intern was
still following an utterly antiquated procedure when he brought
home a data-backup device ...
Stolen
Backup Device Holds Info On 225000 Ohio Taxpayers
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
The device was stolen after a state intern took the device home
as part of a policy that called for one backup device to
be kept offsite. ...
Backup Tapes in Mass Tort Litigation
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Companies involved in mass tort litigation thus face a Hobson's
choice when it comes to preserving backup tapes. There
are real questions of whether the ...
Intern loses
backup device with personal data on Ohio state workers
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
According to a description of the incident on Strickland's Web
site, a "computer backup device" containing the
information was stolen from the car of an ...
State computer tape theft opens up many questions
Lebanon Western Star - Lebanon,OH,USA
By William Hershey COLUMBUS -- The theft of a state of Ohio
computer backup tape from the car of a state intern has
set off two searches -- one to find what ...
Ohio Employee Data Is Stolen From Car
New York Times - United States
As a security measure, a backup storage device is kept at
a temporary work site for a state office, and another backup
device is given to an employee to ...
Stolen state tape: More personal info than thought
Dayton Daily News (subscription) -
Dayton,OH,USA
By William Hershey COLUMBUS -- After learning that additional
personal information might be on a stolen state backup
computer tape, Gov. ...