I was looking around for a quicker and easier way to do automated backups for running Hyper-V guests as part of a recent work project. As you might guess, there are tons of options – mostly it comes down to how much you want to spend. I had been told … Continue reading
I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair … Continue reading
For our home backups I’ve primarily been using the free version of Mozy for three and half years now (first look). It works great for us and the few times I’ve needed to recover files there have been no issues. In fact, the only issue I’ve had is not having … Continue reading
Thinking about going to online backups for your home or office? I’ve been a Mozy user since last August and recently gained a lot more (unplanned) experience with the MozyPro service as well. What follows are some things to consider. While all my experience is via the two Mozy services … Continue reading
This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put … Continue reading
