Veeam patches third critical RCE bug in Backup & Replication in space of a year Version 13 can’t come soon enough Patches18 Jun 2025 | 1
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US govt login portal could be one cyberattack away from collapse, say auditors Login.gov hasn't shown its backup testing policy is working, GAO warns Public Sector04 Jun 2025 | 14
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle Cloud storage biz says 'baseless allegations' are attempts by analysts to profit The State of Storage29 Apr 2025 | 16
30 minutes to pwn town: Are speedy responses more important than backups for recovery? The industry’s approach to keeping quality backups may be masking the importance of other recovery mainstays The State of Storage04 Apr 2025 | 4
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance It's going to happen to you one day, so get your ducks in a row Disaster Recovery Week03 Apr 2025 | 10
Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue' Maps Timeline info wanders off forever for users without encrypted backups Personal Tech24 Mar 2025 | 39
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee On Call Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked Storage28 Feb 2025 | 182
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU DevOps team did the dirty on a database Disaster Recovery Week17 Feb 2025 | 7
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried? On Call Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets Storage07 Feb 2025 | 196
Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise Column But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends? Storage29 Jan 2025 | 104
Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf Who, Me? Uni sysadmin who ran the lab he erased was a big part of the problem Storage18 Nov 2024 | 124
Salesforce now owns Own Company after $1.9B bargain hunt Acquisition of SaaS backup vendor ends mega-merger moratorium Storage06 Sep 2024 | 3
Veeam debuts its Proxmox backup tool – and reveals outfit using it to quit VMware More help for Nutanix, too Software02 Sep 2024 | 23
Microsoft finds a new way to irritate Windows 11 users – a backup pop-up Ads in the Start Menu not annoying enough for you? Hold my beer OSes29 Jul 2024 | 86
Synology stretches into a backup appliance, with object stores to come Computex Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Storage06 Jun 2024 | 3
SpiderOak One customers threaten to jump ship following datacenter upgrade One tricky cluster is causing outrage among longstanding customers Disaster Recovery Week28 May 2024 | 9
Veeam says critical flaw can't be abused to trash backups It's still a rough one, so patch up Patches23 May 2024 | 1
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
FOSS replacement for Partition Magic, Gparted 1.6 is here to save your data But beware – Gparted Live hasn't been updated yet OSes28 Feb 2024 | 45
Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom Exclusive Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor’s roadmap Virtualization22 Jan 2024 | 27
Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9
Data loss costs are going up – and not just for those who choose to pay thieves Ransoms, investigations, and breach-related lawsuits are hitting companies in the wallet, law firm says Cyber-crime02 May 2023 | 4
Why a top US cyber spy urges: Get religious about backups Lesson we've learned from Ukraine Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 36
A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew? Storage31 Jan 2023 | 39
Go to security school, GoTo – theft of encryption keys shows you need it Ongoing probe into cloud storage attack finds customer data exfiltrated Security25 Jan 2023 | 49
Founder of cybersecurity firm Acronis is afraid of his own vacuum cleaner It is the exponential changes in the course of human history that worry Serg Bell Security03 Oct 2022 | 32
Backblaze thinks SSDs are more reliable than hard drives The ones used as boot drives in its datacenters seem to be, but perhaps not over time Storage13 Sep 2022 | 56
If you didn't store valuable data, ransomware would become impotent Column Start by pondering if customers could store their own info and provide access Storage23 Jun 2022 | 44
Linux Mint adopts Timeshift from overworked original developer Team lead Clement Lefebvre takes over maintaining backup tool from UMix creator Applications09 Jun 2022 | 24
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots' Networks21 May 2022 | 109
Kasten by Veeam adds ransomware detection to K10 data management platform Kubecon Catching compromise attempts before kicking off that recovery plan Storage16 May 2022 |
Backup frustration brought this CTO to forefront of ransomware protection Interview Constant versioning of file systems is the way to go, Nasuni cofounder says Storage12 Apr 2022 | 14
AWS makes auto-recovery the default for EC2 instances Your cloudy server will not self-destruct – even if the hardware it runs on does PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2022 | 4
Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs But warns sample size is a bit small to leap to big conclusions Storage04 Mar 2022 | 18
Back up for a minute – Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies Failure can be factored in when you're doing your sums, says vendor Storage01 Feb 2022 | 14