Preparing for the End of Support for Windows 10
by Jon Ferraez on May 5, 2025, 11:14:35 AM
A Guide for Managed Service Providers Windows 10 will reach its End of Support on October 14, 2025 (Microsoft Lifecycle Policy). If you and your customers are still running this version of Windows, now is the time to prepare for a smooth transition to a newer Windows operating system …
Bare Metal Restore to Smaller Drive
by Jon Ferraez on Jun 27, 2024, 8:00:00 AM
A bare metal restore refers to a technique used to restore an entire system (applications, OS, files) to a blank or "bare metal" hard drive that is free of any applications or operating system. A bare metal restore is often performed by using a disaster recovery image backup created w …
How to Restore a Single File from a VMware Backup of a Virtual Machine
by Jon Ferraez on Mar 6, 2015, 8:20:14 AM
When it comes to restoring files from a virtual machine, 80% of the typical recovery cases that we see only require a single file to be restored from a backup. Given that reality, why waste your time and effort restoring an entire virtual machine, when you can do a file-level restore …
How to Replicate Virtual Machines (VMware)
by Jon Ferraez on Feb 4, 2015, 9:30:35 AM
In an earlier post, we discussed, What is Virtual Machine Replication? and what it can do for your business. Now we want to take a deeper dive into how to replicate virtual machines using NovaBACKUP software. In this post, we discuss VMware replication specifically, although the softw …
VMware VM Backup Best Practices
by Jon Ferraez on Feb 3, 2015, 12:21:16 PM
This article is designed to walk you through VMware VM backup best practices using the Virtual Dashboard available within NovaBACKUP software. Using the native "Change Block Tracking" (CBT) feature available through VMware, NovaBACKUP will allow you to do daily Differential or Increme …
Small Business Backup: Where to Backup Data
by Jon Ferraez on Sep 16, 2014, 4:56:54 PM
Most small businesses understand the importance of backing up their business data, but don't always know the specifics of where to back up data or how to implement fail-safe measures to ensure that their data is protected. If you cannot afford to lose your data in the event of a devic …
