Of the products tested, Arkeia Network Backup had the longest lists of supported operating-system clients and storage devices and methods. Of the products tested, Arkeia Network Backup had the longest ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rite of spring cleaning is clearly good for your home and your mind and well-being, but trust me, your home network and all the devices connected to it could use it, too. Yesterday, we looked at a ...

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 ...

Backing up your network isn’t much good if you don’t have a mechanism for determining if your backups completed successfully. Further, even though a bunch of tools are available that monitor and ...

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

If you ask me what is the easiest way to steal information from a highly secure site, I will probably not suggest trying to exploit a misconfiguration in the firewall, subverting the perimeter ...

Using a NAS as a Time Machine target is also convenient in the same was as storing files on the NAS. My MacBook will continue ...