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Unitrends announces VM Backup Essentials (vBE)

If you're working for an Enterprise with your workloads based purely on VMware vSphere, then there's a new launch from Unitrends that you may be interested in looking at for your virtual backup / business continuity solution that I have learned about. vBE (short for VM Backup Essentials),converges enterprise-grade backup

Some other TimeMachine exclusions

In my other post on the topic [http://michaelpoore.com/2015/11/infected-email-breaking-osx-timemachine-backups/] I excluded my local Mail app files from my TimeMachine backups because they were tripping over McAfee AntiVirus. I thought that it might be sensible to add a few other exclusions to trim down the total amount

Infected email breaking OSX TimeMachine backups

Having been away from home a lot recently, it had been a while since my laptop had been backed up by TimeMachine. After a few attempts though it got a bit annoying as McAfee kept interrupting the process. The problem seemed to be that the backups contained infected emails: [/content/

Unitrends Free - Review: Part 2

In Part 1 [http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/unitrends-free-review-part-1/] of this review, I walked through the deployment and initial configuration of the Unitrends Free backup appliance. I'm now going to touch briefly on some of the other features of the product before summarising my thoughts. Recovery There's no point taking

Unitrends Free - Review: Part 1

I was asked to give a new, free backup tool a quick road-test recently. Unitrends have had an Enterprise version of their backup software for some time. And, as I've used it a bit in my lab with an NFR license in the past I was only too happy to

Updating Crashplan on ARM based QNAP

Last month I wrote a quick overview of the process to install Crashplan on and ARM based QNAP NAS [http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/installing-crashplan-on-arm-based-qnap/]. Six weeks (ish) later and it's still going ok. Or, at least I thought it was… Periodically, the makers of Crashplan update their software. Nothing

What's New in PHD Virtual Backup 5.3

I've just been catching up on some blog feeds and emails that I haven't had a chance to read in recent weeks. Apparently PHD Virtual [http://www.phdvirtual.com/] dropped version 5.3 of their backup and replication product on the world. It's now more efficient and each Virtual Backup

Veeam Surebackup

Everybody is talking about it. If I asked my brother-in-law (an advertising creative) he'd probably say that this is a good marketing strategy. It certainly works on me anyway – I'm as curious a hell! Like everyone else who's been talking about it, I registered to find out more. Some have