Most businesses test their backup systems on the same device they’re backing up — a critical oversight that can render recovered data completely unusable. Most businesses understand the importance of ...

WhatsApp chats already have end-to-end encryption, but what about your online backups? They'll soon be covered, too. As The Verge notes, WABetaInfo has discovered that the latest WhatsApp beta for ...

Over a long weekend recently, I experienced what every computer user fears most: a hard drive crash. For the next few hours, I hoped that it was some sort of ...

A disaster recovery plan is only effective if you can restore data. But despite the growing risks – especially from ransomware – not all organisations are sure they actually can recover from their ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. To test backup and restore time and throughput, we used a ...

Deja Dup is Ubuntu's built-in backup tool that offers encryption, incremental backups, and cloud storage support. Launch Deja Dup and walk through the setup wizard, selecting a backup destination, ...

Just had an SSD fail in my ESXi setup (Samsung 840 Pro, after just 3 years of light service). I used it to host 4 VMs. I had backups scheduled to run once a week to copy the VMs to another drive. This ...

One of the best ways to secure your data is to create a backup that is recoverable in case of data loss. Even more important is to test backup recovery systems regularly. This is because backing up ...