Backups

Web hosting Reliability: 8 tips to get 100% Uptime

You deploy a new website or server with the greatest optimism. Unfortunately, it frequently goes down when you least expect it. Does this sound familiar? If you’re like most people, you’ve been frustrated by downtime and the harm it can cause your website or business. However, don’t worry; we’re here to help. In this article,

Copy Files and Directories in Linux with SSH using SCP, CP, and Rsync

As a server admin, even simple tasks can benefit from a fresh perspective. To that end, today’s article talks about multiple ways you can copy an entire directory and its files in linux. To do so, we’ll be exploring three commands: cp, scp, and rsync. cp You can copy files and folders within the same

Baby Got Backups??

IOFlood’s Top Ten Tips for Best Backup Practices! 1 – Always use remote storage!2 – Make sure you run backups regularly!3 – Automate your backup process to make it simple!4 – Know your backup capacity, don’t run out of space!5 – Encrypt your backups to keep them safe!6 – Always use RAID where possible!7 –

Troubleshooting backup problems with Idera R1soft under Centos (part 1)

Everyone knows it’s a good idea to keep backups, but it can be difficult to get them up and running, and even harder to keep them staying that way. On top of that, the backup process can make your server slow to a crawl if you have typical hard drives instead of SSDs. R1Soft is a

How should I protect my dedicated server – backups, or RAID?

In the rush to get by with daily life, often we don’t think much about how our data is stored. But as anyone who has experienced a hard drive failure can tell you, once you’ve lost your data, you wish you had done something to keep it safe to begin with. So often times, we