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Learning Guide: Backup Solutions

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This newly updated SearchWinComputing.com guide introduces you to backup, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting advice. You'll find articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice

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and more to quickly pump up your backup know-how. Drop me an e-mail to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchWinComputing.com. Vandana Sharma, Assistant Editor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hardware and Software

Disaster Recovery

Backup 101

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Glossary Definition: Backup 101 (Powered by Whatis.com)

Article: Backup basics: Words to know

Article: Worst practices for backup and disaster recovery (Part 1)

Article: Worst practices for backup and disaster recovery (Part 2)

Article: CDP not always a substitute for conventional backup

Article: More options in backup landscape for Windows

Article: Outsourcing the backup data center

Chapter Download: Inside Windows Storage: Chapter 5, "Backup and Restore Technologies"

Chapter Download: Resilient Storage Networks: Chapter 2, "Data Storage Fundamentals"

Article: Best backup plans for the desktop

Article: How to ease into archiving through backup

Article: Checklist: How to stretch backup windows on a budget

Article: Checklist: Performing data backups

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You'll find more expert advice on backup and hardware in our Ask the Expert section. If you've run into a problem using backup software or hardware, try posing your own question to Bernie Klinder. Browse the questions below for sampes of our expert advice on backup.

Advice: Can you explain the different types of backups?

Advice: Can you help me devise a backup system?

Advice: What other system files need regular backup besides user files?

Advice: Are tapes a reliable backup system?

Advice: Can a backup from one server be restored to a completely different new server?

Advice: Can I backup my DNS server without backing up all the system state data?

Advice: What is the difference between differential and incremental backup methods?

Administration

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Browse this collection of backup tips chosen by our editors.

Tip: 10 tips in 10 minutes on backup and restore technologies

Tip: Backend tasks you should automate: Backups

Tip: Desktop tasks you should automate: Backup and archiving

Tip: Secondary backups from Veritas NetBackup, MP3 risk data loss

Tip: Bridging NTBACKUP's shortcomings

Tip: Do you still need to do full backups?

Tip: Idiotproof backup solution for users employs CD-RW

Tip: Backups to CD-RW in XP

Tip: Understand your scheduled backups

Tip: Design critical in data compression backups

Tip: Setup support of dynamic disks falls short

Hardware and Software

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Browse this collection of backup-related articles chosen by our editors.

Article: Product Roundup: Backup software

Products of the Year 2005: Backup hardware

Products of the Year 2005: Backup and disaster recovery software
Article: Microsoft's backup software not a replacement for tape

Article: Microsoft's customers will get their backup

Disaster Recovery

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Browse this collection of articles about backup and disaster recovery chosen by our editors.

Learning Center: Data protection

Tip: What to do when your hard drive fails

Tip: Ultimate boot CD packs in recovery, repair utilities

Article: Archive and backup snuggle up

Article: Small shops tackle DR on a budget
Article: Vendors sharpen DR tools
Article: Iron Mountain loses 40 Time Warner tapes
Article: Marriott breach spotlights internal data security
White Paper: Windows 2000 Server disaster recovery guidelines

White Paper: Optimizing disk-based backups for SMBs and distributed enterprises

Webcast: How to back up and recover GPOs

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