If you're going to take 1/3rd of your capacity for parity data you might as well go RAID10 IMHO. I would probably have it set at 6 assuming your backup software is just laying down large streamed ...

SonicWALL network protection devices connect between your company's Internet connection and its internal network. They serve as firewalls to block malicious traffic from entering your systems.

Backups are the most essential maintenance task for computing devices, and believing otherwise only sets you up for a lot of despair when things eventually go wrong. This is especially true for home ...

There’s lots of ways to sort out what to back up and what not to, but the goal should always be to back up everything that needs to survive a crash. Something as simple as how you tell your backup ...

You all know about the importance of backing up your systems. Ideally, the whole system needs to be backed up, but this costs time and space. However, as a very convenient shortcut, there is an easy ...

Backups are one of those things everyone knows they should do, but most people get wrong. The tools are either too complicated or too expensive. Cloud services want monthly subscriptions just to store ...

I know of RANCID and I'm considering it.<BR><BR>In the past I have had basic scripts to login to my routers and have them do a 'copy running-config tftp' to keep a backup of my configs. As my network ...

It’s likely your current backup solution has warts. In fact, very few people like their backup product. And when a charming sales engineer from Acme Backup highlights 10 new whiz-bang features on ...