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May 25, 2023 — 4 min read
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May 25, 2023 — 4 min read
How MSPs can back up Microsoft 365 for their clients?
Businesses use software applications, such as Microsoft 365, to digitize their operations, but these applications are the primary targets of cyberattackers. Therefore, comprehensive and effective data security must begin with effective backup and recovery of the data these applications use and transfer. This article explains how MSPs can safely back up their clients' M365 data when fulfilling their security responsibilities.
May 16, 2023 — 8 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 8 min read
Acronis Cyber Protection Week: What is the 3-2-1 backup strategy?
On this first day of Cyber Protection Week, we focus on how backup is important, but that it's just as important to remember that having one backup copy is sometimes not enough. Read this article and learn how following the 3-2-1 rule of backup can stop your organization from becoming a data disaster statistic.
May 16, 2023 — 18 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 18 min read
How to Back Up a Hard Drive and Restore Your Computer?
There’s an old saying in IT that goes something like this: “You never realize how important backups are until you need one and don’t have one.”
May 16, 2023 — 8 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 8 min read
What is Cloud DR (Disaster Recovery)? Cloud vs On-Premise
Before your organization makes an investment to support your disaster recovery (DR) strategy, be sure you understand the pros and cons of each choice. For some organizations, on-premises DR may be the right solution, while other organizations can save money and achieve the best DR protection with a cloud-based DR solution.
May 16, 2023 — 8 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 8 min read
How to create a Full System Image Backup in Under 10 Minutes?
With file-level backups, you backup and restore files such as Word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, photographs, videos, and audio files. Many users think that just backing up these kinds of files is all they need. While file-level backups work if you are restoring a small number of files, it is a time-consuming task to restore an entire PC or Mac.
May 16, 2023 — 22 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 22 min read
How to recover deleted files on Windows 11?
Windows 11 promises both UX and performance improvements that align the operating system (OS) with modern apps and services while leveraging the compute and memory power of next-generation processors. But no matter how shiny the new OS, users will still need to deal with routine issues such as recovering lost files.
May 16, 2023 — 10 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 10 min read
How to Deploy a Remote Backup Server: A Simple Guide to Effective Backup
Backup today is a lifeline to the future for small, medium, and enterprise organizations alike. That’s because data is the world’s most valuable resource (more so than oil, according to The Economist) and you have to protect it. With a backup solution in place, businesses can keep running.
May 16, 2023 — 6 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 6 min read
What is the difference between RPO and RTO?
What is the difference between RPO and RTO? Although both recovery objectives are similar in measurement metrics, their focus differs according to application and data priority
May 16, 2023 — 11 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 11 min read
Using telnet to Test Open Ports
When it comes to checking if a network port is opened or closed on a remote computer, there's no easier way than to use telnet. Ports left open for no reason are a security risk that malicious programs and viruses can exploit.
May 16, 2023 — 7 min read
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May 16, 2023 — 7 min read
What is the difference between incremental, differential, and full backup?
Both differential and incremental backups are "smart" backups that save time and disk space by only backing up changed files. But they differ significantly in how they do it, and how useful the result is.
May 15, 2023 — 27 min read
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May 15, 2023 — 27 min read
How to Recover Unsaved/Deleted Word Document in 2023? - Ultimate Guide
There are few experiences as universally familiar as losing a Word document. Everyone from high schoolers with Catcher in the Rye book reports to business executives with quarterly earnings knows the panic of their work disappearing when it’s just a few crossed-t’s away from being completed.
May 11, 2023 — 7 min read
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May 11, 2023 — 7 min read
Third-party backup services are critical for Microsoft 365
In the event of a ransomware attack, Microsoft can bulk-restore your mailbox going back two weeks, but you will lose all work in the interim and cannot restore individual resources lost due to accidental deletion. It is therefore essential that businesses consider implementing a third-party M365 backup tool to provide additional data protection layers and to back up data to secure off-site locations.
May 10, 2023 — 3 min read
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May 10, 2023 — 3 min read
Best practices for verifying and validating your backups
Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.