NAKIVO Blog

19 May

What is Application-Aware VM Backup?

When it comes to backups, there is a wide range of options that must be considered such as backup type, frequency, source, destination, and many others. Back in the early days of traditional backups, most backup solutions simply captured files...
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Posted by: Brandon Lee

17 May

VM Backup: How VSS Makes It Consistent

One of the important parameters of a VM backup is its consistency. The consistency guarantees that the virtual machine is fully functional after it was restored from a backup, instead of having just a bunch of files. A non-consistent backup...
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Posted by: Dmitriy Yegarmin

15 May

Image-based vs. File-based Backup

Image-based and file-based backup pursue different goals, and although they can be interchangeable, it is better to understand the purpose and the meaning of each of them. When it comes to backing up separate files, the first thing that comes...
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Posted by: Vladimir Tkachenko

11 May

Screenshot Verification for Hyper-V – Sneak Peek

Our goal is to bring Hyper-V feature set on par with that of the VMware. One feature that is not yet available for Hyper-V is Screenshot Verification. If you’re not familiar with this feature, it provides an automated way to...
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Posted by: Sergei Serdyuk

8 May

What is Crash-Consistent Backup?

In the world of backup technology, things have come a long way since the early days of backup software simply capturing files on disk. In the early days of backup software, backups would parse through files on the disk(s) in...
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Posted by: Brandon Lee

4 May

VM Backup Appliance Based on QNAP NAS – Available Today!

While NAKIVO Backup & Replication already provides a variety of deployment options, we’ve received a lot of requests from our partners and customers to extend our supported platforms to QNAP NAS. (By the way, did you know that QNAP stands...
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Posted by: Sergei Serdyuk

3 May

Protecting Your Backups with Backup Copy

In thinking about making an enterprise environment resilient against a disaster whether natural, malware, or self-imposed, we need to think very carefully about our backups. It is extremely important to not only make sure we have good onsite backups but...
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Posted by: Brandon Lee

26 Apr

VM Snapshot vs Backup

When it comes to quick rollbacks, snapshots on virtual machines are a quick and effective way to roll back to a point in time. Especially when it comes to development environments, VM snapshots are a great way to return to...
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Posted by: Brandon Lee

24 Apr

What is VMware Changed Block Tracking and how it works

When thinking about modern VMware backup solutions, most leverage a technology called Changed Block Tracking or CBT to facilitate taking incremental backups of virtual machines. This technology is derived from the VMware Data Protection API which allows third-party backup applications...
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Posted by: Brandon Lee

19 Apr

Hyper-V Cluster Setup 3 of 3: Cluster Creation, Cluster Shared Volume, Highly Available VM

Now that we have the initial work out of the way in preparing our hosts, storage, networks and other details, we can look at actually creating the Hyper-V cluster, provisioning a cluster shared volume, and creating a highly available VM....
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Posted by: Brandon Lee