• Altaro ships Hyper-V backup solution for SMBs

  Altaro Software has started shipping Hyper-V Backup, a product designed to make it easier for small and medium-size companies to protect the data on their virtual servers.

• Seagate offers data recovery with hard drive purchase

  Hard drive crashes are a nightmare for computer users for many reasons. Not only can data held dear to one's heart be lost, but trying to recover it can cost an arm and a leg, if not more. Hard drive maker Seagate attempts to address both those problems with the release today of its GoFlex Turbo drive with SafetyNet data recovery services.

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  NBN reliability: Help guide first step for battery backup

  The roll out of the National Broadband Network is set to revolutionise the way Australians communicate, but it has raised questions about the reliability of the network compared with existing copper-based telephone systems, especially among non-technical people.

• The good, bad & ugly of Dropbox authentication error

  Online storage service Dropbox made an embarrassing error Monday, turning off password authentication for millions of users.

• How to keep local access to data during Cloud outages

  The Amazon cloud services outage that knocked out several popular Websites last week raised questions about the reliability of the cloud, but the general consensus is that it works if you plan for failure. Like any good business plan, a good cloud plan should include provisions for failure, including plans B and C, and plenty of backups.

• Get 5GB of free cloud-sync storage from SugarSync

  Wouldn't it be cool if you had a "magic" folder on your PC, one that automatically synced its contents with the Web, your other PCs, your cell phone, and other devices?

• Safely dual-boot Windows 7 and XP

  QUESTION My PC dual-boots Windows XP 32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Every time I work in XP I lose all my restore points in Windows 7.

• When the backup drive gets full

  Rat74136's external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.

• 15 free security and backup utilities

  Lock down your PC.

• Six ways to botch your backups

  Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

• To tape or not to tape, that is the question

  Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts "To be or not to be." Mention backup, and the question becomes, "To tape or not to tape?" Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in the modern small business?

Whitepapers about backup

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  2012 Data Backup Strategy Guide

  Articles include: 10 best cloud backup strategies for biz continuity, Disk or tape? How about both, Protect Your Backup Data from Murphy’s Law, Back up without crashing.

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  Case Study: Fairbrother constructs a reliable backup platform across its remote Branch Locations

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  EMC Data Domain Archiver - A Detailed Review

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  HP Case Study: LINKBYNET selects HP Data Protector software to manage its IT systems