Tag: backup

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Iwona Fredouelle. 19 January, 2022 | Iwona Fredouelle Restoring a backup from a regular Tableau environment to an external file store Tableau server/cluster If you don’t know how backup with external file store works, this page explains it quite well. This blog post describes how to restore a backup from a normal Tableau server without any add-ons to Tableau server with external file store (with Server Management Add-on). There is no official description on how this works, so this is based purely on my experience. Also this is a pg-only restore, which means it restores ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; The world of online backup and digital storage can quickly become confusing, even after you’ve separated out all the various service categories like cloud storage, online backup and IaaS providers. This guide will teach you everything you need to know about online backup features, as well as what distinguishes this kind of software from other categories of storage. Key Takeaways: Online backup can be broken down into two main categories: individual file and folder backup or disk imaging, which creates a complete copy of your entire system.Online backup is generally more bare-bones with features than ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; When considering online backup services, speed can be an important factor. However, it’s something that can be hard to test yourself without investing a lot of time and money. For that reason, we’ve tested the major backup providers to determine which is the fastest online backup service. Key Takeaways: The first thing to understand is when we’re talking about the “fastest backup,” we’re really talking about two metrics combined: the upload speed and the download speed. For our overall winners, we’ve taken both into account. We’ve also separated the two metrics further down to see ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; There are countless services out there that are able to back up your device, and that can make it difficult to see which is the best for a specific job. If you want to back up music files, then you should get a backup service that does this well. That’s why we’re looking at the best music backup services to see which one you should use. Key Takeaways: IDrive is a great backup provider with a built-in way to back up music on your mobile.pCloud has its own music player, allowing you to listen to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Storage Gateway now supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from Dell EMC NetWorker and Veeam Backup & Replication to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Dell EMC NetWorker 19.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication 11A running on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; In this blog post, we will compare the performance of performing a backup from a MySQL database using mysqldump, MySQL Shell feature called Instance Dump, mysqlpump, mydumper, and Percona XtraBackup. All these available options are open source and free to use for the entire community. To start, let’s see the results of the test. Benchmark Results The benchmark was run on an m5dn.8xlarge instance, with 128GB RAM, 32 vCPU, and 2xNVMe disks of 600GB (one for backup and the other one for MySQL data). The MySQL version was 8.0.26 and configured with 89Gb ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; With so many good backup services out there, it can be hard to work out which one you should pick. In this SpiderOak vs Backblaze comparison, we’ll look at where these two top services shine and the downsides you should consider when deciding between them. Key Takeaways: SpiderOak and Backblaze are both top backup services with a few weaknesses.Backblaze is fast, easy to use and a great value for the money. SpiderOak has superior features and stronger security. Although neither is the best service out there — Backblaze lost in our IDrive vs Backblaze comparison and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, we are announcing the public preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3. You can now create a single policy in AWS Backup to automate the protection of application data stored in S3 alone or alongside 11 other AWS services for storage, compute, and database. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can create independent, immutable, and encrypted backups and centrally manage backups and restore of S3 buckets and objects across your AWS accounts. You can get started with AWS Backup for Amazon S3 (Preview) by creating a backup policy in AWS Backup and assigning S3 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Backup now allows you to centrally protect VMware workloads, on premises and in the cloud as VMware CloudTM on AWS, helping you meet your business and regulatory compliance needs. You can now use a single policy in AWS Backup to centrally protect your hybrid VMware environments alongside the 12 AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) already supported by AWS Backup. AWS Backup enables you to demonstrate compliance status of your organizational data protection policies by monitoring backup, copy, and restore operations, and allowing you to generate unified auditor-ready reports to help satisfy your data governance and regulatory ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon DynamoDB now helps you meet regulatory compliance and business continuity requirements through enhanced backup features, including copying on-demand backups cross-account and cross-Region, cost allocation tagging for backups, and transitioning backups to cold storage. In addition, backups managed through AWS Backup are now stored in the AWS Backup vault, which allows you to encrypt and secure your backups by using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key that is independent from your DynamoDB table encryption key. You can use on-demand backups to create full backups of your DynamoDB tables with a single click, and with zero impact on ... Read More