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Data Backup and Recovery
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Discussions about data backup methods and techniques. Large businesses with IT professionals consider data backup and recovery absolutely essential. Many small businesses and most home computer users are doing very little to protect their data even though data loss would be a very painful and costly experience.
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Xdrive to Shutdown by End of Year
According to an article recently published in The New Your Times, AOL has decided to shut down the Xdrive online backup and file sharing service. According to an internal memo, AOL Executive Vice President Kevin Conroy said Xdrive and several other ...
Encrypting Backup Data is Not Just for Online Backup
I have noticed that when data encryption is mentioned about backup data, it is almost always in the context of online backup. It is quite obvious that backup data needs to be encrypted when it is transmitted over a network. But it doesn't seem to be...
Broadband and Online Backup
The availability of broadband Internet service to the majority of US homes and businesses brings with it the availability of online backup services. The fact that broadband, whether cable or DSL, usually provides much more bandwidth in the downloadi...
Is Online Backup Risky?
Ever search the Internet for information on a particular topic and find a lot of worthless noise? Happens to me all the time. The bigger problem is when people with little or no knowledge of a subject pipe up and post in online forums as if they are ...
Relatively offsite
I just heard about a business that was storing their offsite backup data in the basement of their building. I guess offsite is a relative term. The backup tapes were out of the data center which is on the fourth floor. This is definitely better than ...
