Category: Backup&DR 101

Xopero ONE Backup & Recovery version 1.2.0 is already available and includes a whole series of ground-breaking features and improvements. Let’s take a look at the most remarkable ones:

What exactly does the 3-2-1 backup rule mean? And why do so many security specialists emphasize incorporating the rule into a data protection strategy? Does fulfilling three basic requirements could eliminate the consequences of business downtime due to outages, cyber-attacks, or natural disasters?

For many, encryption is a golden standard in data protection and the best way to ensure a high level of security in professional backup solutions. Could encryption be used as a mitigation mechanism against data breach events too? Yes. AES encryption is truly one of the most effective tools in the security professional’s arsenal. In this article, we will touch upon a variety of fundamental topics in data encryption. And if you prefer a more practical approach there is also an in-depth presentation of how Xopero ONE allows to encrypt [and protect] backed up data.

With the growing number of data created by the Business every day (week or month) some easy ways to shrink the size of backups would help to improve data storage management. If only… But there is a quite smart solution for this problem. And in this article, we will talk about it. As you probably guessed our today’s topic is backup compression, and how it helps create a better backup strategy.

In the world of cybersecurity, we have a few problems that need to be solved. One of them is consistent data protection, where the backup has/plays a special role. There is this unattainable dream to keep all of your backup copies forever. Unfortunately for many organizations, such a task would be simply impossible to execute. Keeping backups requires storage space, which runs out quite quickly. 

Here at Xopero, we divide people and companies into two groups. Those that are aware of the risks awaiting their data, and in conclusion making sure that it is secure by creating regular backups. The second group counts all people that haven’t lost their data yet. This one will shrink over time for sure. How do we know that? Because in today’s world there are countless amounts of risks threatening the security of data. 

Phishing attacks, accidental or intentional deletion, system errors, malicious hacker attacks. And many many more. Researchers point out that the cost of 1-minute downtime costs organizations from $926 to even $17k. That is why having a comprehensive backup solution in place is the best thing you can do for your company. But when it comes to backup, which type to choose? File backup or Image backup? In this article, we will take a closer look at the file and image backup strengths and weaknesses. Finally, I will try to answer which of these two options best fit your business needs.

Here in Poland, we apparently had one of the coldest May’s in the last 40 years! However, paradoxically, we have prepared some really HOT news from last month. Definitely, topic number 1 is GitProtect.io – our brand new GitHub and Bitbucket repository and metadata backup software. This completely breakthrough product lets us believe we have a pretty big chance to become a market leader in the repository backup market. Check it out!

Having a backed up copy of your data, allows having them recovered, in case of emergency. But when to create that copy? How often to perform a backup? Do you need to backup every day? In this article we’ll talk about backup strategies – FIFO scheme and GFS scheme.

In the last blog post we covered full, incremental, and differential backup. In this one, we will talk about backup types which are a variance of them: forever incremental, synthetic, reverse incremental.

Full copy, incremental copy, differential copy… today we are going to talk about different backup types. We will start from absolute basics, but more experienced in that field reader should be able to find something interesting as well.