Sunday, May 24, 2009

Backup Your Important Data..... Why ?

Back up your data before it's too lateSadly, many individuals and even businesses don't realize how valuable their data is until they don't have it any more. It's not a matter of "if" you will experience data loss; it's a matter of "when".

It could be a simple file deletion or it could be a disaster where we have to bring the system + data. Who knows what will happen within next few hours.

If you needs to have comprehensive backup solution you can go for third-party backup tools which will cover later in this post.

Or you could use free backup utility which come with the OS, also cover later in this post.

It is very important to backup your data either using by free or third-party backup tool before it is too late....

What are the third party backup tools?

Here I am mentioning some tool which I have experience on. The product prices are based on the backup strategy. for example if you are using the product to backup Exchange/ SQL /Oracle you need to have license for each in order to have comprehensive data recovery solution.

FalconStor portfolio of data protection solutions
http://www.falconstor.com/en/pages/index.cfm?pn=DisasterRecovery&gclid=CJz9iojb1JoCFRKIxwodRiMkFg&bhcp=1
VIP Backup
http://www.vipbackup.com/index.html
ARC Serve
http://arcserve.ca.com/products/product.aspx?id=5282

Backup Exec
http://www.symantec.com/business/products/family.jsp?familyid=backupexec

What are free backup tools available?
In Windows NTbackup - Which is simple tool but, can be used to backup File server/ Exchange / SQL / etc?
In Unix - tar command
tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar.gz \ --directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=var/spool/squid

-Thanks
@Roshan

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