Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups. As part of my operational readiness preparation, I want to ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...

Time Machine is a great way to back up your computer, and How-To Geek points out if you're using a Mac laptop with Time Machine enabled, there's a local backup file packed with previous versions of ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget. The public cloud ...

Instant Recovery Software (IRS). This is a technology that is related to Light Virtualization (LV), but the actual implementation varies between the two technologies. Within this review, I will ...

Our conference buddy Rich Trouton has published an extensive blog post about creating, managing, and using APFS snapshots, with oodles of details about how Time Machine relies on APFS and how you can ...

If you want to recover deleted files from a VMware Datastore, follow one of the methods mentioned below. If you’ve deleted a file from a virtual machine, a snapshot might save you. Think of a snapshot ...

Nearly all enterprise and mid-range storage arrays come with snapshots. But that’s not the only place you can manage them from. Backup software also comes with snapshot functionality, and in fact some ...

You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know. When Windows 8 made its public debut in October 2012, one of the new ...