With the increasing popularity of virtualization, some of our Partners find that when they move their RBS Server to a different VM the server stops with errors. You might get error EXP1, N100, or some other error, but in all cases the RBS Server stops running. This is by design.
Read MoreYearly Archives: 2016
RBackup usually does a full backup for the first backup in a new Backup Set, and often the first backup from a new client is huge. If done online it can take days or weeks to finish. A good alternative to speed up the process is to seed-load the first backup using a portable USB drive instead of doing it online.
Read MoreAfter 30 years in the Remote Backup business I have retired. I have sold the business to our long time CTO, Pinku Bharathi, who has headed the Support department for eleven years, and the Development department for the past five years. Pinku has been an integral part of the management team, and he is very […]
Read MoreAh, memes. What would we do without them? A clever caption paired with just the right photo can brighten our day. And there are days when you really need to laugh, especially if you work in networking, working tirelessly to keep everyone and everything connected. Read the article here: http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-centers/10-funny-networking-memes/1325563637
Read MoreWhile some companies acknowledge that they need disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS), many still think that backup as a service (BaaS) is sufficient to meet their data management needs. Read more here: via From backup as a service to DR as a service | IT-Online.
Read MoreHurricane season may have officially started on June 1, but the riskiest part of the season is only just beginning, said scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). http://www.livescience.com/55863-peak-hurricane-day-approaches.html
Read MoreMeteorologists expect tropical storm Gaston to become a hurricane by the coming weekend, perhaps becoming the first major hurricane in the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, which started on June 1. RBS Partners in coastal areas are encouraged to make use of your Emergency Hot Sites if necessary. Hot Sites are free of charge to any […]
Read MoreRemote Backup Systems has just released a new Software Rental license and in-house financing. With the new Rental option, MSPs can start their own in-house online backup service for as little as $78/month, hosting their own backup servers and customer data completely in-house.
Read MoreRBS revived our Tuesday Live Chat yesterday at 2PM and encountered some problems with the new IRC server. It seems it worked great during testing, but when we put it under load it choked. We finally found and fixed the problem (we raised the number of connections allowed through WEBIRC) but it took us an […]
Read MoreWay back in the olden days RBS hosted a weekly live one-hour round table chat via IRC. We often had sixty or more participants in two or three discussion channels talking about everything related to Online Backup. We discussed pricing, technical issues, marketing, and more. Now we’re going to try it again! Our first Live […]
Read MoreToday we’re announcing the release of the latest version of RBackup, v11.16.003. It is available for download now at the Partner’s Portal. There are some new features and lots of tweaks that you can read about below. [v11.16.003 Change Log] Download this update from the Partner’s Portal and run it on your RBS Server.
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