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Disaster Recovery is the planning for and creation of policies and procedures related to the resumption or continuation of an organization's functions following a catastrophic event. The term is most frequently used in relation to failure of networks, but DR preparations also include other business systems and personnel considerations.

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I have a drive of 8TB, only 1.5 TB is free, can i do shadow copies on this drive.

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Can anyone clarify how the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials backup utility actually functions when backing up to multiple external USB hard drives?

Example - 2 external USB drives are rotate…

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I'm just looking to pick your brains regarding backup solutions. I'm currently relying on the native SBS2011 backup solution and using two rotating USB drives that I swap out weekly. …

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This probably is a RTFM question but i just need some clarification as to how to do backup and at the same time able to restore individual file back - I am little confused as to what Incre…

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I've tried several software for recovery of damaged partitions and disks, but have not found any very effective in recovering data. Preferably also could test discs as HDTune. Would it be possi…

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Hi all

Got a very strange one here.

A client has a standalone ESXi 5.5 host, with a local datastore which started as being on one virtual disk, then being extended onto a second virtual disk. B…

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I have read various reviews of backup software, but I am not sure which one to pick. I want one that runs automatically, allows for a boot CD and can be used to allow restoration of individual files…

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Hey Experts!!

Needing some advice\help on a VMware VDP appliance.
Long story short we have been having issues with our VDP appliances filling up.
(usually the .var-poxy-4 folder) and dismounting …

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Using SSL I did a MySQL database dump and copied it to my server.

I have FTP also working and assume I could use FTP to backup the WordPress site?

How is the best way to do this?

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Hello
I want to be able to test software and windows settings without damaging my system
I know there are multiple solutions but would like your feedback on the following option please
- I buy and …

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I have created an .iso file on my hard drive to use when booting from a CD or DVD. How do I make this file bootable?

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Hi Guys,

im having some problems with Hyper-V backup.

Environment:
Host machine: Windows server 2012 R2 running BackupAssis.
2 Guest machines are running windows server 2012 R
we had Veeam …

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Hi, one of my home machines was attached by zepto ransomware.
Device is a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10, 64-bit & MS Office 2013.

Several of my work files, especially Word documents and Excel…

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I want to do some type of FULL "C" drive backup
every month, with incremental nightly backups on
my Windows 10 Pro laptop, insuring that I can
easily recover if my hard drive crashes

1. What…

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Like we use SRM as Dr Software, would need info for other better tool we can use to achieve DR successfully.

What all h/w and software solution we can use for best DR set-up for running production…

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Im using Veeam Backup and Replicate 8.00 on my VM environment and Im getting the following error when trying to backup one of my guests.

20/02/2016 22:36:48 :: Processing ServerDC Error: Unfreez…

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Backup software that could backup at vm level yet look inside luks encrypted lvm volume of guess linux os for individual file restores?

Now that we are on the VMware I would like to be able to us…

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I have a Dell PowerEdge T320 running Windows Server 2008 R2 with a Perc H710 in RAID 1 that got hit with ransomware. I wanted to restore a clean image that was created with Active@ Disk Image. Usi…

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Hi. I am looking at the most convenient way to beta-test a software without damaging my pc and to revert back to its original state in case I don't want it.
I can think of several solutions
- I can …

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Hi,
I have a client that mistakenly upgraded from W7 to W10 and would like to roll back to W7. The 30 period has elapsed.
Is there a method or an ISO or a program (preferably free) that can do the r…

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Hey All,

Urgent question for anyone please.

I have got a RAID 5 config on a Data volume in a Dell server. One drive went pop today and has failed.. still spins up (as in can feel when ejected) b…

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So I have a Windows 10 home edition laptop with UEFI that has a disk going bad. I was able to get Paragon Disk Manager 12 to create an archive of the disk a week ago. But when I attempt to migrate t…

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Hi All,

I've got this first edition of WIndows Server 2012 R2 ISO:

SW_DVD5_Windows_Svr_Std_and_DataCtr_2012_R2_64Bit_English_Core_MLF_X19-05182.ISO

An now I've succesfully create the bootable…

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In VMWare ESXI 6x, I want a way to save a SAFE copy og the my virtual servers. In a previous life I was a CITRIX (XenServer) administrator and we could just take a SNAPSHOT of the working server so we…

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