Current conundrum, setting up SQL cluster for a SharePoint installation and we are using VM's for the cluster. My major beef is the inability to do snapshots or backups of the VM's with vCenter/Veeam.

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. There are many options for backing up databases, and ...

Nearly all enterprise and mid-range storage arrays come with snapshots. But that’s not the only place you can manage them from. Backup software also comes with snapshot functionality, and in fact some ...

Backup is a key component of any good data protection strategy. But does the advent of virtualisation mean traditional backup can be replaced by new data protection methods, such as replication, ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...