The Microsoft Online Backup Service, which is backed by Microsoft's Azure cloud, allows files and folders to be backed up to the cloud for off-site protection against data loss due to disasters, wrote ...

Ask any tinkerer about the ideal home server platform, and you’ll hear the name Proxmox pop up fairly often in the conversation. Between its LXC support, terrific virtualization performance, cluster ...

In a post to Microsoft’s Windows Server blog, Microsoft Senior Program Manager Gaurav Gupta revealed that the company will offer an integrated cloud backup service for Windows Server “8”(the current ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Restarting the Windows Server Backup Service requires you to stop the Service and then start it. If the Service is stopped and not running, you will have to just start it. Let us see how to start and ...

Back in the day, Microsoft's free backup tool was the now venerable NTBackup. However, that utility has gone to the great recycle bin in the sky. Windows Server 2008 offers a new set of backup tools, ...

What's new in the server backup utility? Last time I wrote about the Windows Server Backup tool in Server 2008 and its use in creating systems state backups. Microsoft made some changes to the backup ...

Tom Fenton says VMware's free solution has been proven over the years and is a viable option for even the most cash-strapped vSphere deployments. About five years ago I wrote an article about using ...

A free tool from Microsoft can make backing up data in Windows Server 2008 R2 efficient and almost hassle-free. Here's how to use it effectively. Back in the day, Microsoft's free backup tool was the ...