by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 22, 2016 | Server Administration
In the online world, data loss can happen due to many reasons. Human errors, hardware issues or even natural calamities can end up causing a business downtime. Maintaining server backups is a preventive measure to minimize the business downtime due to such mishaps....
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 6, 2016 | Server Administration
In IT systems, disaster can strike any moment and in any form. A hard disk failure, third party attack or even human errors can lead to data loss. To recover valuable data in such scenarios, backup management plays an inevitable role. But many times people just...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 16, 2015 | ovirt
In our recent post ‘How to configure VM backups in oVirt’, we saw how we configured a VM backup system for a cloud service provider. We further went ahead and expanded the backup system with oVirt engine backups. oVirt engine manages the centralized...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 15, 2015 | ovirt
People often assume that backups are not important in a cloud setup due to its automatic fail-over feature. Automatic fail-overs migrate Virtual machines in a cloud from one hypervisor to another, when any one hypervisor goes down. But this fail-over feature does not...
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