Full-file incremental forever, block-level incremental forever or source depulication? The best way to choose is to perform backup and recovery tests and evaluate the performance of each method. A ...

Real-time or near-real-time snapshots, replication and continuous data protection (CDP) have become common methods of protecting data in the datacentre. But traditional backup, where copies of data or ...

The invention of synthetic full backups is one of the most important advancements in backup technology in the last few decades, right up there witih disk-based backups, deduplication, continuous data ...

Consider using incremental image copies to reduce the batch processing window for very large database objects that are minimally modified between image copy backups. The DBA must base the ...