Despite those limitations, Btrfs snapshots remain one of the best features I’ve adopted on Linux. They let me recover from mistakes and failed updates in seconds, something that no traditional backup ...

In this podcast, we look at snapshots and their role in data protection strategy with Shawn Meyers, field chief technology officer (CTO) at Tintri. Meyers also talks about the limitations of snapshots ...

While storage array snapshots offer quick, hardware-level data protection, they are not a standalone substitute for traditional backups due to limitations in protection, management and retention ...

To sum up, backups are copies, come with an overhead, and are taken relatively infrequently, generally once a day. They provide a copy of the selected datasets from which customers can recover data to ...

If you've ever set up a new Windows PC or reinstalled Windows on your existing one, you know that it can be a big chore. Hunting down installers, clicking through installation wizards, and then ...

I'm doing a POC of Incus at work. Cheap Hetzner iron is good for us, and we're looking to expand virtualization capabilities. The POC is great, but Incus defaults to using a directory for storage, ...

Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...

If used properly, new features built into Windows 11 offer safe, nearly complete backup, restore, repair, and recovery operations without third-party tools — but there are some caveats worth knowing.

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...