Backup, DR & Resilience

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (621+ words) Most people test a phone backup on the worst possible day: the morning the old phone will not turn on, the new one is in hand, and there is no time to fix anything. Android's built-in backup is genuinely capable....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (87+ words) Why “iCloud storage full” tempts people to delete photos from the iPhone and keep them in iCloud, what iCloud … A backup, in the sense that protects you, is a second copy that does not follow your deletions. Almost every expensive…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (256+ words) UPDATE: Oct. 24, 2024, 9:52 a.m. PDT This article has been updated to reflect that the full archive appears to be back up. The full Internet Archive is back online — not just the Wayback machine, but the massive collection of media including music, documents,…...

4+ day, 24+ min ago   (1094+ words) I had just finished publishing an introduction to containerized GPU data centers. It was about transporting and installing entire data centers as modular units rather than building structures. On that very same day, parts of a domestic cloud service were…...

4+ day, 51+ min ago   (69+ words) I had my installation of Frontpage 2002 (part of Office XP) wiped out and lost all my files under the "my webs" directory on My Documents. I recall that on my hosting company (Godaddy), when I FTP'd to it, I noticed…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1859+ words) Turn on iCloud Backup in Settings and tap Back Up Now, or back up by cable in Finder or Apple Devices. See what each backup keeps and how to check it. Whichever you choose, check the date of the last…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (846+ words) Hybrid cloud was supposed to give you the best of both worlds. Keep sensitive data close, push everything else to the cloud, and never worry about running out of capacity. For a lot of IT pros, the flexibility has been…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1291+ words) Losing a file is rarely dramatic at first. The problem is that many people think they have a backup when they actually only have another copy. A USB drive can fail. A synced folder can synchronize an unwanted deletion. A…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1228+ words) Gather these before you begin so you are not hunting for credentials halfway through a backup job: If you are running a staging environment or a site with a large media library (several gigabytes of uploads), budget extra time for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (244+ words) SC Media Signal completes rollout of secure chat backups across all platforms As reported by Bleeping Computer, the secure messaging app Signal has completed the rollout of its secure backups feature, version 8.30, across all supported operating systems including Android, iOS,…...