As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.

Virtual machine backup can be done using a traditional backup product with agents in each virtual server's file store but can also be carried out via snapshot or by backing up the virtual machine and ...

Download the entire Feb. 7, 2011, issue of InformationWeek, distributed in an all-digital format as part of our Green Initiative (Registration required.) We will ...

If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional ...

Sean Gallagher, who began his career as an IT project manager for the Navy, has spent two decades as a technology writer and reviewer. CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Virtual Machines Most IT ...

May 22, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The CodeFromThe70s blog has a tutorial for backing up your current installation of Windows XP to a virtual machine ...

So now that I've switched to Xen, I need a means to do bulk administration on the virtual machines. SSHing into each machine to run apt-get seems rather tedious, and Xen does not allow direct ...

Enterprises running hypervisors on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems typically have backup options available to them that are not available to those running on generic hardware. Such ...

Acronis, best known for its imaging software, today released the latest version of its backup and recovery software, which combines file and bare metal backup and restoration. Aimed at small- to ...