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Disaster Recovery

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

EC2 Backup and Disaster Recovery Without Overspending

Organizations need an EC2 backup and disaster recovery strategy that goes beyond occasional snapshots. The goal is to combine fast...

XCP-ng VM Backup and Disaster Recovery (Xen Orchestra)

The supported way to back up XCP-ng virtual machines is Xen Orchestra, the management tool from the same vendor, Vates. Its backup jobs...

How do you use Windows Server image backup for full protection?

A Windows Server image backup copies the operating system, the installed applications, the system state and every data volume. File-level...

How do you manage a Windows Server backup retention policy?

Making backups is half of a data protection strategy. Without a retention policy, backup storage fills up with copies nobody needs, and it...

Choosing an Alternative Backup for Physical Windows or Linux Servers

When organizations evaluate alternatives for protecting physical Windows or Linux servers, they usually look at simplicity, cost,...

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...

How Enterprises Can Protect Sensitive Data on Windows 10 Devices

Protecting enterprise data on Windows 10 takes layered security that combines the built-in system protections with planned backup and...

Effective Methods to Back Up and Restore Windows Server

Protecting Windows Server takes a structured backup and recovery strategy that covers system failures, hardware issues, ransomware...

Best Ways to Back Up and Restore Files on Windows 10 and Windows 11

Backing up files on Windows 10 and Windows 11 protects you from data loss caused by hardware failure, accidental deletion, corruption, or...

Best Red Hat Virtualization Backup Method Against Ransomware

In Red Hat Virtualization environments, the backup method that protects best against ransomware combines immutable storage, air-gapped...

InCloud Sphere Backup Features for Reliable Disaster Recovery

In InCloud Sphere environments, reliable disaster recovery rests on automation, verified recoverability, a scalable architecture, and...

What Is VMware VMFS and How It Simplifies Disaster Recovery

VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a high-performance clustered file system built for VMware virtual environments. It lets multiple...

Snapshots vs Backups: Key Differences and When to Use Each

Snapshots and backups are both important parts of data protection, but they serve different purposes and work in different ways.

How to Simplify Data Protection in Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

Simplifying data protection in Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager environments means combining an efficient backup architecture with...

Improving Backup and Disaster Recovery on Sangfor HCI

Better business protection in a Sangfor HCI environment comes from three things together: an efficient backup strategy, flexible...

XCP-ng Business Continuity: Backup and Disaster Recovery

Keeping an XCP-ng environment running through an incident takes more than basic VM management. You need backup, recovery and disaster...

Snapshots vs Backups in Virtual Machine Data Protection

Snapshots and backups are both common data protection mechanisms, but they serve different purposes and work in very different ways.

RPO vs RTO: What Is the Difference and How Do You Set Each One?

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is how much data loss your organization can tolerate, measured in time. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is...

How Do Cloud Distributors Protect Kubernetes and OpenStack Data?

Cloud distributors deliver Kubernetes and OpenStack data protection by putting cloud-native backup technology together with local...

Are Snapshot Backups Enough for Kubernetes and OpenStack?

A snapshot backup is a point-in-time copy of a storage volume. It does not keep the full application context, the orchestration metadata...

Cloud-Native Backup and Disaster Recovery for Solution Providers

Solution providers can deliver cloud-native backup and disaster recovery services by building application-aware data protection into their...

What Is Continuous Recovery and Restore in Kubernetes and OpenStack?

Continuous Recovery and Restore is a disaster recovery approach that continuously replicates application data and metadata to a secondary...

How to Design a Disaster Recovery Plan for Cloud-Native Apps

A disaster recovery plan for cloud-native applications needs application-aware backups, the ability to restore into another cluster, and...

How to Build a Disaster Recovery Strategy for Kubernetes and OpenStack

A disaster recovery strategy for Kubernetes and OpenStack needs application aware backups, the ability to recover into another cluster and...

OpenShift Backup, OpenShift Migration, and OpenShift DR

OpenShift backup protects cluster state, application resources, and persistent data so workloads can be restored after a failure....

Cloud Native Backup and Disaster Recovery for Financial Institutions

Financial institutions need automated, immutable, application aware backup and continuous recovery across their Kubernetes and OpenStack...

How IT Directors Can Reduce VM Migration Risk and Ensure Continuity

IT directors can reduce VM migration risk by resolving configuration compatibility issues, keeping downtime short with phased cutovers,...

The Biggest VM Migration Risks and How to Protect Business Continuity

The biggest VM migration risks are configuration mismatches, downtime and service disruption, data corruption during transfer, and...

What a Data Protection Insights Podcast Offers Cloud Leaders

A data protection insights podcast features expert discussions on cloud-native backup, disaster recovery, multi-cloud strategy and data...

Application Resiliency: What It Is and How to Build It

Application resiliency is an application's ability to keep working through failures and to recover quickly when it cannot. You build it in...

What Is Disaster Recovery and Why Should You Care About It?

Disaster recovery is the process of restoring IT infrastructure, applications, and data after a disruptive event such as a cyberattack,...

How to Fix Disaster Recovery Problems in Cloud-Native Setups

You fix a painful disaster recovery process by replacing slow manual steps with automated, application-aware backup and real-time...

How Hybrid Clouds Integrate OpenStack Native Backup and Recovery

Hybrid cloud platforms integrate OpenStack native backup and recovery by building application aware data protection directly into their...

How Modern Backup Cuts Cloud Costs and Speeds Up Kubernetes Recovery

Most teams assume they have to trade faster recovery against lower cost. In older backup models that was true. Newer approaches change how...

How Snapshots and Continuous Restore Speed Up Cloud-Native Recovery

Traditional backup systems were built around a simple idea: copy data somewhere else, then rebuild from that copy when needed. That model...

Why Data Protection Is Foundational in Sovereign Cloud Architectures

Sovereignty is fragile if you cannot recover what you control.

Why Snapshots Alone Are Not Enough for Enterprise Data Protection

Snapshots are attractive because they are fast and lightweight, but they were never designed to be a complete protection strategy.

What Does a Kubernetes Data Protection Platform Need?

A Kubernetes data protection platform needs application-aware backup, disaster recovery across clusters, policy based management, and...

How to Get Near-Instant Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes Apps

Near-instant disaster recovery for Kubernetes applications comes from continuous restore technology paired with application-aware backup....

Features of an Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes Data Protection Platform

An enterprise-grade Kubernetes data protection platform provides application-aware backup, multi-cluster disaster recovery, an...

How Storage Integrations Improve Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Storage integrations improve backup and disaster recovery because the backup platform can use enterprise storage systems directly for...

What Makes a Strong Partner Ecosystem for Cloud-Native Data Protection

A strong partner ecosystem for a cloud-native data protection platform combines technology integrations, marketplace availability,...

How Policy-Driven Disaster Recovery Works for Cloud-Native Apps

Policy-driven disaster recovery for cloud-native applications automates backup, replication, and recovery with predefined rules that...

Resilient Cloud-Native Applications with Backup and Disaster Recovery

Organizations make cloud-native applications resilient with Kubernetes-native backup, continuous restore, and a data protection...

How Can You Migrate Between OpenStack Platforms Without Downtime?

Organizations can migrate between OpenStack platforms without downtime by using application-aware backup and migration tools that capture...

How to Protect Kubernetes Applications Across Core, Cloud and Edge

Protecting Kubernetes applications across core data centers, public cloud and edge sites takes policy based backup, centralized management...

How to Protect Virtual Machines Running on OpenShift Virtualization

Virtual machines on OpenShift Virtualization need Kubernetes native backup that captures VM disks, Kubernetes objects and application...

How to Protect Kubernetes Workloads in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Setups

To protect Kubernetes workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, you need application-centric backup that captures persistent...

How Do You Back Up and Restore Applications in Red Hat OpenShift?

To back up and restore applications in Red Hat OpenShift, you have to capture Kubernetes objects, persistent volumes and application...

How to Protect Kubernetes Applications Running on VMware Tanzu

To protect Kubernetes applications on VMware Tanzu, you need application-aware backup that captures Kubernetes resources, persistent...

How TrilioVault and Cloud-Native Platforms Change OpenShift Backup

They move the unit of protection from infrastructure to the application.

Red Hat Summit 2025 Trends in Data Protection, AI and Virtualization

These technologies are all advancing, and data protection is being pulled into each of them at the same time.

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