NAKIVO Blog

26 May

Benefits and Technologies of LAN-free Backup

During a backup, large amounts of data are transferred through the networks and can cause a slowdown of business-critical operations. Network administrators use various approaches to minimize the impact of backups on the daily operations. Among those are scheduling backups...
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Posted by: Michael Bose

24 May

VMware Backup Best Practices

Backups are a critical part of our VMware virtual infrastructure. These days with mission-critical 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, the always-on infrastructure behind many web-facing businesses, business continuity is essential. When thinking about backing up our VMware...
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Posted by: Brandon Lee

22 May

Backup Deduplication Explained

Large virtual infrastructures generate a vast amount of backup data that leads to the increase of spending on storage infrastructure: storage appliances themselves and their maintenance. So network administrators are looking for the ways to save storage space. One of...
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Posted by: Michael Bose

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: Michael Bose

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