by technicalguy | Jul 22, 2016 | Laptop Desktop Backup, Server Backup |
Life is busy, but backups need to occur, when is the best time to backup your systems?Morning? Lunchtime? Evening? Overnight? The best time to backup depends on what device you are backing up, whether it is part of the supporting infrastucture or an end user device,...
by technicalguy | Jun 22, 2016 | Cloud Backup, Online Cloud Backup |
Google Drive is a well known cloud drive service that allows you to store documents and data in the cloud. It is used more and more by small businesses as a way to collaborate and to share documents and data with people worldwide. For all its robustness though, it has...
by technicalguy | Jun 9, 2016 | Cloud Backup, Laptop Desktop Backup |
I got a message last week from a contact in LinkedIn anxiously asking for help. Their laptop had died. Well, not just died, it burned! They sent me a picture. You can see the battery at the top that has melted, and the white stuff – well that’s Fire Extinguisher power...
by technicalguy | May 12, 2016 | Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity |
A cautionary tale of disaster, backups, and recovery that comes from the recent wildfire disaster at Fort McMurray, Alberta. Fort McMurray Disaster The Fort McMurray wildfire started May 1st and was actually the ninth wildfire since the beginning of the year. This one...
by technicalguy | Nov 27, 2015 | Cloud Backup |
A VMWare backup will protect your new virtualized environment so that you can restore the server image as quickly as possible. As a Canadian business you probably also want to keep that backup in Canada, and you’ll want both an onsite and off-site recovery...