Got a Virtualization Infrastructure backup strategy yet?

Ever since we deployed and migrated some of our IT infrastructure to Virtualization, backup of those resources, and virtual machines has been a top priority. Once that Virtual Machine (VM) is deleted from the database, there is no way to get it back unless you have another copy of it, cloned it, made a template from it or point in time backup of that VM somewhere other than the datastore it is running on.

How to configure Backup Exec to purge Exchange email logs?

If you have a busy Exchange email server, your log folder can grow to a humongous size in no time. Recently, our exchange 2007 cluster went from 200 GB free to 2GB free space. In a cluster environment, when you run out of disk space, exchange 2007 server will dismount the databases which means no… Continue reading How to configure Backup Exec to purge Exchange email logs?

MySQL Backup Script

If you run a website or a forum, you are probably using MySQL as its backend database engine. MySQL is one the most popular open-source applications on the planet and pretty good one as well. Being the best and most popular doesn’t mean free of issues and headaches that come with managing databases… are you… Continue reading MySQL Backup Script