The wise people at Silverpop have produced another informative whitepaper called “A Failure to Communicate: Stop the Noise & Start Real Dialogues with Prospects.” Click here to download your free copy.We recommend this one because it does a great j...

The latest maintenance release of RBackup was posted for download on August 9, 2010. It contains new features and minor fixes. This is version 11.1.6.

“HOW HOT IS IT?”

OK there was this car, a blue mid-80s Volvo, covered boot to bonnet with plastic fish SINGING OPERA and dancing. They were individually animated, and vigorously conducted by a lobster formerly named Larry.

If you haven’t yet visited MarketingExperiments.com, we’d like to introduce you to this fantastic group of researchers whose self-proclaimed goal is: to discover what really works in optimization. The team focuses, “…all of our experimentation ...

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers. This last article discusses Recovery Objectives. Other articles in the series talk about backup schedules and shows how to estimate backup times, setting backup strategies, optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online, selecting backup types, and explains how to define backup sets.

I don’t know what to say about this, except that Elizabeth had way too much time on her hands and a key to the office supply closet.

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers. This fourth article discusses backup schedules and shows how to estimate backup times. Other articles in the series cover setting backup strategies, optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online, selecting backup types, and explains how to define backup sets.

This five part series by Rob Cosgrove helps Managed Service Providers and Online Backup consultants design correct backup protocol for their customers. This third article suggests specific files and folders to include and exclude, and explains how to define backup sets. Other articles in the series cover setting backup strategies, optimizing backup time by identifying data that needs to be backed up online, selecting backup types, and defining schedules.

In the old days when people backed up to tape drives a certain strategy had to be used. The most popular was Grandfather/Father/Son tape rotation. This method required 19 to 23 tapes and ensured that there were always backups of the seven most current days, the four most current weeks, the eleven most current months, and the most current year.