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 ...

I’ve already mentioned that Windows Server Backup is fast when performing a full volume backup. In my experience, you can expect at least a gigabyte per minute even on older hardware, when backing up ...

I run nightly backups using windows backup utility for my DCs and exchange and when restoring to the cold spare server the restores work fine. However restoring to an ESXi server as a guest OS it ...

Microsoft Windows has become the platform of choice for many businesses today. And with the recent release of Windows Server 2008, many organizations are making the upgrade to this next generation of ...

You always have the default backup tool from Microsoft known as Windows Server Backup (WSB). This comes as a built-in tool, but it is not automatically configured, therefore, you will have to do it ...

FREMONT, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) introduced the industry's first hardware-accelerated backup-to-disk data ...

Long story, but I've been tasked with finding a backup solution for a couple of old physical Windows Server 2003 boxes. The idea is to have backups that I can then convert to virtual in a DR event.

Over the next several weeks I’ll be blogging about significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that you can decide whether the supplied ...