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11 guides on database backup, covering backup strategy, recovery planning, and data protection for production and homelab infrastructure.

How Do You Create and Restore a SQL Server Database Dump?

A SQL Server database dump is one of the more dependable ways to protect important data, move a database somewhere else and prepare for...

The main Amazon EC2 instance types and how to choose the right one

Amazon EC2 offers a broad range of instance types, each optimized for particular workload characteristics such as compute power, memory...

What Are the Biggest Pain Points During OpenStack Upgrades?

The biggest pain points during OpenStack upgrades are service downtime, complex dependency sequencing, database migrations, configuration...

Why NFV Workloads Need Backup and Recovery

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) workloads need backup and recovery because even "stateless" network functions depend on logs,...

Why scale-out databases still need backup despite replication

Replication keeps a scale-out database available, but it does nothing for the integrity of the data. These databases are built to keep...

Which Improvements Matter Most in OpenStack Backup Platforms?

A modern OpenStack backup platform needs simple deployment, an architecture that scales, efficient incremental backup, and close...

Why Vector Databases Need Stronger Data Protection Than Most Apps

Because the data in them is computed value, and recreating it is expensive. That changes the whole risk profile.

Why Traditional Backup Falls Short for Containers in OpenShift

Traditional backup was designed for stable systems, and OpenShift environments change all the time.

Why Protecting User Data in Kubernetes Is More Complex

Kubernetes does not treat data as a fixed asset. It treats data as something that moves, scales and depends on many layers at once.

What the Third Document Adds to the Recovery Argument

This third document closes the loop, so nothing in the argument rests on a guess any more.

Why Redis Needs Specialized Backup in Cloud Native Environments

Redis behaves very differently from traditional databases, and that breaks the assumptions generic backup is built on.