Q2 2025 Release: Reliable Restores and Tremendous Transparency
by Nathan.Fouarge on Apr 16, 2025 1:12:11 PM
Data loss isn't just an inconvenience - it's a race against the clock. Whether you're recovering a single critical file or rebuilding an entire infrastructure, every minute of downtime costs money and trust.
How MSPs and Businesses Can Ensure Fast and Reliable Recovery After Data Loss
by Nathan.Fouarge on Apr 7, 2025 1:55:07 PM
When it comes to data loss, what usually makes the headlines? Data breaches and ransomware, of course. But surprisingly, these are far from the most prominent reasons for data loss, regardless of the size of your organization.
10 Top Data Backup Questions from MSPs Answered (2025 Edition)
by Nathan.Fouarge on Feb 12, 2025 10:00:00 AM
For this blog post, we've compiled the most common backup and recovery questions we hear from MSPs and provided clear answers to help you optimize data protection for your small business customers. Whether you're fine-tuning an existing strategy or starting from scratch, this Q&A …
Incremental Forever Backup: Addressing Modern Backup Challenges
by Nathan.Fouarge on Dec 16, 2024 1:31:49 PM
How Incremental Forever backup outperforms differential or incremental backup strategies Backup technology has been a staple in IT for decades, providing businesses with a safety net against data loss. Yet, the fundamental methods - full, incremental, and differential backups - haven’ …
What Is the Difference Between File, Application, and Image Backup?
by Nathan.Fouarge on Nov 21, 2024 11:15:00 AM
When managing backups, it is important to understand your options. Backups come in several forms - file backups, application backups, and Disaster Recovery or image backups - each designed to protect different types of data in different ways. Let's break down the key differences and s …
5 Helpful Tactics for Better Backup (and Restore)
by Nathan.Fouarge on Jun 19, 2024 10:06:00 AM
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, data is at the heart of everything we do. With all the digital data that organizations rely on for their day-to-day operations, it's even more important to make sure nothing happens to it (or, if something does happen, that you can at least rec …
What Do You Mean OneDrive Isn’t Backup?
by Nathan.Fouarge on Jun 12, 2024 12:30:00 PM
For years now, more and more people have been using "the cloud" to store their files, whether it's Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure cloud services, or any of the other file syncing services out there. Note that I say “file syncing services”, not cloud b …
How Ransomware Has Changed the Way We Think About Backup
by Nathan.Fouarge on Apr 17, 2024 11:57:52 AM
Backup used to be a way to get your data back when a hard drive failed or a system outlived its purpose. That is, in most cases, you could restore data from a backup made a day or two earlier with little or no data loss. This led to backup strategies that, for example, set retention t …
Deploy and Configure Backup Remotely
by Nathan.Fouarge on Dec 3, 2020 2:20:02 PM
Employees are increasingly working from remote locations, thus creating new security vulnerabilities. Monitoring and managing the data generated by these off-site workers is an entirely new challenge as data becomes more widely distributed. System administrators must be able to quickl …
Preparing to Sign a Cyberinsurance Policy
by Nathan.Fouarge on Mar 17, 2020 5:44:57 AM
Now you’ve read a little about cyber-insurance, and the challenges you might face. But don’t dismiss it just yet. There are substantial reasons to enter into a Cyberinsurance policy. Cyber insurance is there to provide resources when all of your defenses have failed, at a potentially …