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The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.
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This article shows how to use a free utility called 'Parkdale' to easily test the performance and benchmark any Hard Drive(s) installed in your computer. We also look at RAM Disks and their speed comparisons.
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NIce article although the author doesnt seem to know that there are two measures of a disks performance
1) Throughput - measured in MBytes/sec
2) Bandwidth - Measured in IOPS
These two measures are mutually linked ie 100MB/s can either be 1*IOPS*100MB, or 100*IOPS*1MB
The figures seem to also show a lot of cache effects, or have dubious provenance, otherwise how does a USB connected drive achieve 2289.5 IOPS (how do you get .5 of an IOPS anyhow)
1) Throughput - measured in MBytes/sec
2) Bandwidth - Measured in IOPS
These two measures are mutually linked ie 100MB/s can either be 1*IOPS*100MB, or 100*IOPS*1MB
The figures seem to also show a lot of cache effects, or have dubious provenance, otherwise how does a USB connected drive achieve 2289.5 IOPS (how do you get .5 of an IOPS anyhow)
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Hi Gerald,
I do understand there are several things to take into consideration when measuring the performance of any hard drive, however going into depth in so far as eliminating cache effects would go beyond the scope of what this article is attempting to achieve. You may have also noticed that I didn't mention or talk about the effect FSB speeds can have on a hard drive's performance either?
As I mentioned at the start of the article;
Indeed. How do you get a .5 of an IOPS ?
Or even a .7 or .8
How about you tell us? :-)
Thanks for your feedback. Always great to hear back from ones readers.
Best regards,
Andrew
I do understand there are several things to take into consideration when measuring the performance of any hard drive, however going into depth in so far as eliminating cache effects would go beyond the scope of what this article is attempting to achieve. You may have also noticed that I didn't mention or talk about the effect FSB speeds can have on a hard drive's performance either?
As I mentioned at the start of the article;
The reason you might want to skip the QD32 tests is that they're not particularly useful for real life scenarios and just take additional time to run. QD stands for "Queue Depth" so the software also measures "separate thread" transfer speeds. Information not of much use for our purposes. I only include the results that I got below for the sake of completeness.I think the general flow of the article from that point forward clearly shows it is targeting beginners to hard disk performance measuring and not representing any type of advanced hard drive performance analysis.
The figures seem to also show a lot of cache effects, or have dubious provenance, otherwise how does a USB connected drive achieve 2289.5 IOPS (how do you get .5 of an IOPS anyhow)
Indeed. How do you get a .5 of an IOPS ?
Or even a .7 or .8
How about you tell us? :-)
Thanks for your feedback. Always great to hear back from ones readers.
Best regards,
Andrew
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Absolutely true! Backup is mandatory these days. I would recommend multiple backups (different hosts). The most common threat these days is indeed Ransomware and that's because it is very different from other types of viruses. Learn more about it and what you need to do to keep your data safe. Remember to always keep everything patched and updated!
Microsoft will be releasing the Windows 10 Creators Update in just a matter of weeks. Are you prepared? Follow these steps to ensure everything goes smoothly and you don't lose valuable data on your PC.
In this article we will learn how to backup a VMware farm using Nakivo Backup & Replication. In this tutorial we will install the software on a Windows 2012 R2 Server.
Microservice architecture adoption brings many advantages, but can add intricacy. Selecting the right orchestration tool is most important for business specific needs.
The article will include the best Data Recovery Tools along with their Features, Capabilities, and their Download Links. Hope you’ll enjoy it and will choose the one as required by you.
I have come across one windows data recovery software online. It is free to download software. It has very easy to use user-interface which can be operated by a non-technical person. I found it very effective in recovering my data.
I am attaching link here to know more about it.
https://www.sysinfotools.com/recovery/windows-data-recovery.php
I am attaching link here to know more about it.
https://www.sysinfotools.com/recovery/windows-data-recovery.php
Hello, thanks for your nice sharing. And have you tested Puran file recovery and PC Inspector recovery?
Honestly, last time, when my hard drive got cleaned due to a mistaken quick format, I did have searched and tried many free data recovery tools searched online, like your mentioned Recuva (free and fast), iCare Data Recovery Free (completely free and effective), PC Inspector Recovery (free, but, fails often) and Puran recovery (free). And TestDisk and PhotoRec were also free, but, difficult to understand and operate.
I just found them all here: https://www.icare-recovery.com/howto/best-data-recovery-freeware.html
Hope my experiences could help you enrich your article.
Honestly, last time, when my hard drive got cleaned due to a mistaken quick format, I did have searched and tried many free data recovery tools searched online, like your mentioned Recuva (free and fast), iCare Data Recovery Free (completely free and effective), PC Inspector Recovery (free, but, fails often) and Puran recovery (free). And TestDisk and PhotoRec were also free, but, difficult to understand and operate.
I just found them all here: https://www.icare-recovery.com/howto/best-data-recovery-freeware.html
Hope my experiences could help you enrich your article.
Are you looking to recover an email message or a contact you just deleted mistakenly? Or you are searching for a contact that you erased from your MS Outlook ‘Contacts’ folder and now realized that it was important.
VM backup deduplication is a method of reducing the amount of storage space needed to save VM backups. In most organizations, VMs contain many duplicate copies of data, such as VMs deployed from the same template, VMs with the same OS, or VMs that have some (semi) identical files (database entries,
Workplace bullying has increased with the use of email and social media. Retain evidence of this with email archiving to protect your employees.
This article is an update and follow-up of my previous article: Storage 101: common concepts in the IT enterprise storage
This time, I expand on more frequently used storage concepts.
This time, I expand on more frequently used storage concepts.
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A Bare Metal Image backup allows for the restore of an entire system to a similar or dissimilar hardware. They are highly useful for migrations and disaster recovery. Bare Metal Image backups support Full and Incremental backups. Differential backups are not supported.
Create your own, high-performance VM backup appliance by installing NAKIVO Backup & Replication directly onto a Synology NAS!
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The most of this integration is already done. We're just waiting for QNAP team to fully migrate their QTS to 64-bit architecture. According to QNAP, the migration should happen with the next QTS release.
Best regards.
The most of this integration is already done. We're just waiting for QNAP team to fully migrate their QTS to 64-bit architecture. According to QNAP, the migration should happen with the next QTS release.
Best regards.
How to update Firmware and Bios in Dell Equalogic PS6000 Arrays and Hard Disks firmware update.
VM backups can be lost due to a number of reasons: accidental backup deletion, backup file corruption, disk failure, lost or stolen hardware, malicious attack, or due to some other undesired and unpredicted event. Thus, having more than one copy of your business-critical VM backups...
By default, Carbonite Server Backup manages your encryption key for you using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-bit encryption. If you choose to manage your private encryption key, your backups will be encrypted using AES 256-bit encryption.
Storage devices are generally used to save the data or sometime transfer the data from one computer system to another system. However, sometimes user accidentally erased their important data from the Storage devices. Users have to know how data recovery tools work.
You could also go for Removable Data Recovery Tool providing a late binding feature which is a novelty and may not be present in above mentioned softwares.
How to fix error ""Failed to validate the vCentre certificate. Either install or verify the certificate by using the vSphere Data Protection Configuration utility" when you are trying to connect to VDP instance from Vcenter.
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Thanks for the feedback. I have re-sized the image to remove the space taken by blank corner of the frame.
A quick step-by-step overview of installing and configuring Carbonite Server Backup.
Retrospect selectors offer a surprisingly powerful method to precisely control what does, or does not get backed up. However creating complex selectors can be a bit mind bending.
This article discusses nesting selectors within each other to create a flexible backup management toolset.
This article discusses nesting selectors within each other to create a flexible backup management toolset.
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AWS Glacier is Amazons cheapest storage option and is their answer to a ‘Cold’ storage service. Customers primarily use this service for archival purposes and storage of infrastructure backups. Its unlimited storage potential and low storage cost makes it a popular storage choice.
What can be sometimes overlooked are the retrieval costs of your data, depending on how much you retrieve and over what time period can make a huge difference. This article will cover these costs and help you understand the considerations of data retrieval. Its important to note that AWS prices are exclusive of any GST or VAT chargeable (more information on these fees can be found here.)
Retrieval Costs
When you find yourself in a situation where you need to retrieve data from Glacier you need to understand some of the costs to ensure you can complete it in the most cost effective way.
You will probably be aware that AWS boasts a retrieval rate of $0.01 per GB; however this is not as simple to calculate as it seems.
It’s important to note that you can retrieve up to 5% of your total AWS Glacier for free each month which is monitored on a pro rata basis daily. Therefore if for example you have 15TB of data stored on Glacier you could retrieve 25GB a day for free (15TB * 5% (0.05) / 30(days) = 25GB). 25GB would be your daily free allowance.
Any data retrieved over this amount per day will be chargeable based upon other …
What can be sometimes overlooked are the retrieval costs of your data, depending on how much you retrieve and over what time period can make a huge difference. This article will cover these costs and help you understand the considerations of data retrieval. Its important to note that AWS prices are exclusive of any GST or VAT chargeable (more information on these fees can be found here.)
Retrieval Costs
When you find yourself in a situation where you need to retrieve data from Glacier you need to understand some of the costs to ensure you can complete it in the most cost effective way.
You will probably be aware that AWS boasts a retrieval rate of $0.01 per GB; however this is not as simple to calculate as it seems.
It’s important to note that you can retrieve up to 5% of your total AWS Glacier for free each month which is monitored on a pro rata basis daily. Therefore if for example you have 15TB of data stored on Glacier you could retrieve 25GB a day for free (15TB * 5% (0.05) / 30(days) = 25GB). 25GB would be your daily free allowance.
Any data retrieved over this amount per day will be chargeable based upon other …
In this technological trend, we all know the importance of our data. Instead of storing it in a physical device, why not to keep it over the cloud and let it follow you wherever you go. Being in a digital world, Cloud Backup is one such thing every internet consumer should acquire.
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Hard drive sizes are not given in binary, so I didn't go that route.
I also didn't bother to take TCP connection overhead into account either
We're looking for ballpark figures here.
You clearly live someplace with good, cheap network connections -- but you wrote an article for a global audience.
Our shop is in a new area of one of the fast growing regions of our nation.
To get symmetric DSL of 10 Mbps, I'd have to pay $5500 to get fiber to the door and $1350 / month for the service.
A connection like yours 20 Mbps (~120 Mbps download) is simply not available unless you'd pay the astronomical costs of a partial T3 frame relay.
You've missed my point. It doesn't matter what the Cloud has to offer if you have to sip through a very expensive straw -- and the numbers you posted about your differentials are not making sense for your argument
75 MB change every day : 30 minutes to do the daily upload
To get the whole 130 GB up there in the first place
130 GB = 130,000 MB
150 MB per hour
868 hours
36 days.
My point is simple.
If you are going to talk about Cloud-based DR scenarios, the VERY FIRST POINT of discussion has to be effective networking speeds and costs, otherwise, you are wasting your own time and everyone else's
And with your own numbers, if your download is 6x your upload, you are looking at 6 days to pull your data back down. What business can afford that?
I also backed everything up to two separate outboard hard drives which are my backup backups running EMC backup software.
Good idea. Because in the breach, the usefulness of Cloud-based DR is very limited.
And your article fails to discuss such pitfalls.
Indeed,
Instead of storing it in a physical device,
Your article does not give the impression that you intend the cloud as a tertiary contingency -- which is what it really should be.
I also didn't bother to take TCP connection overhead into account either
We're looking for ballpark figures here.
You clearly live someplace with good, cheap network connections -- but you wrote an article for a global audience.
Our shop is in a new area of one of the fast growing regions of our nation.
To get symmetric DSL of 10 Mbps, I'd have to pay $5500 to get fiber to the door and $1350 / month for the service.
A connection like yours 20 Mbps (~120 Mbps download) is simply not available unless you'd pay the astronomical costs of a partial T3 frame relay.
You've missed my point. It doesn't matter what the Cloud has to offer if you have to sip through a very expensive straw -- and the numbers you posted about your differentials are not making sense for your argument
75 MB change every day : 30 minutes to do the daily upload
To get the whole 130 GB up there in the first place
130 GB = 130,000 MB
150 MB per hour
868 hours
36 days.
My point is simple.
If you are going to talk about Cloud-based DR scenarios, the VERY FIRST POINT of discussion has to be effective networking speeds and costs, otherwise, you are wasting your own time and everyone else's
And with your own numbers, if your download is 6x your upload, you are looking at 6 days to pull your data back down. What business can afford that?
I also backed everything up to two separate outboard hard drives which are my backup backups running EMC backup software.
Good idea. Because in the breach, the usefulness of Cloud-based DR is very limited.
And your article fails to discuss such pitfalls.
Indeed,
Instead of storing it in a physical device,
Your article does not give the impression that you intend the cloud as a tertiary contingency -- which is what it really should be.
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Sorry to hear you're not happy with Carbonite's 30 day retention policy. Carbonite was designed as a backup rather than a journaling or archiving service so we wanted to make sure that when you did need to do a restore from your backup that you wouldn't get a lot of data that you had deleted on purpose. Our research indicated that data that wasn't restored within 30 days was usually deleted on purpose so we set up our retention that way.
If you'd like our Carbonite Server Backup offers configurable retention and you can set it to never remove any deleted files: http://www.carbonite.com/en/cloud-backup/business-solutions/server-plans/
If you wanted to learn more about why we set up Carbonite that way or wanted to give more feedback feel free to leave a note back, or Private Message me here on the site. Thanks!
If you'd like our Carbonite Server Backup offers configurable retention and you can set it to never remove any deleted files: http://www.carbonite.com/en/cloud-backup/business-solutions/server-plans/
If you wanted to learn more about why we set up Carbonite that way or wanted to give more feedback feel free to leave a note back, or Private Message me here on the site. Thanks!
This article is essential to make secure Yahoo Mail connection without facing any issue. It is providing simple steps to configure your Yahoo Mailbox to Hard drive using Microsoft Outlook.
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We are all using NAS devices and you probably have one (or more) at home. This article discusses the need to backup your NAS and how to do that
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Great article! We actually have a lot of people come to Carbonite to back up their NAS device either locally using our Server product or backing up the cloud using our Server and workstation tools.
Glad to see you spreading the word about the importance of NAS backup!
Glad to see you spreading the word about the importance of NAS backup!
Nowadays, Virtual Machines are used equally by small and large scale organizations. However the issue is that VMDK files are also prone to corruption. So, in this article we are looking at how to recover VMDK files from hard disk of host operating system.
In this article we have discussed the manual scenarios to recover data from Windows 10 through some backup and recovery tools which are offered by it.
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The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.
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