Like many other people I use a Synology NAS for back-up purposes. All my backup data and other files is stored on the single device. But what when there is a problem with that device or your house (or office) is burned down to the ground. You won’t be ableRead More →
After upgrading to Windows 10 it’s possible that Windows Live Writer doesn’t work anymore. Download this version from the Microsoft site and install it again. Now you’re back in business!Read More →
Veeam has a new product/version of their FastSCP tool and I think it’s amazing! First for this demo I’ve created a Windows 2012 R2 server on Azure : Nothing new here, so let’s move on! Download the beta of FastSCP for Azure here. After a quick install (next-next-next) start theRead More →
A word from my sponsor : Veeam® Backup & Recovery now FULLY supports VMware vSphere 6. Now, you can get Veeam’s largest and most powerful release in history with FULL vSphere 6 support, including support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) and Virtual SAN (VSAN) 2.0, Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)Read More →
Use the following steps to configure Veeam Backup & Recovery to back-up the VM’s (Hyper-V and VMware) to Azure. You can sign up and use free trial licenses for Veeam (check out the banner on the right) and Azure. You only pay for the storage (3 ct for each GigabyteRead More →
A co-blogger contacted me that his site was hacked. Here are some tips from how to recover and prevent this from happening in the future. Change default admin account and password By default WordPress created an admin account with the password you’ve chosen. My advise is to create another administratorRead More →
A reader of my blog mentioned that it’s wasn’t possible to backup to a a share while using Windows Server 2008 backup. Indeed, using the GUI it’s not possible but you can use wbadmin to start a backup to a netwerkshare : Use the following command : wbadmin startRead More →
Sometimes you can’t use Hypervisor backup software, for example when using physical machines (huh?) or Xenserver with unavailable storage for creating snapshots. Ofcourse commercial backup software is nice, but sometimes you don’t want to pay for that (whitebox home environment) or the customer doesn’t have the licenses. Why don’t useRead More →
After my review of Xackup XenServer backup software I received serveral emails and tweets with people asking me if I had ever done a restore test. The answer is : ….. YES! Ofcourse. 🙂 Volledig album bekijken I did several migrations and restores for testing purposes and they allRead More →
The last couple of days I ran into some problems with restoring VM’s on Xenserver. I started looking for Hypervisor backup software for Xenserver. I took a deep dive into the wonderful world called the Internet and found Xackup from Fungusware. Alright, strange name but let’s take a look atRead More →