February 22nd, 2012: The Reliability of using Removable Drives and Mirroring.

Customer Question: We plan to use the 2 Bay Premier as a target for a continuous backup (either Appasure or ShadowProtect) as described in your recent blog post on mirroring removable drives. Basically, the backup job would continuously run (every … Continue reading →

February 17th, 2012: What Type of Hard Drive Provides the Most Reliable and Fastest Backup?

Due to higher density and reliability, SATA drives are taking on more types of workloads, including those required for reliable and fastest backup. Many storage reviewers provide speed benchmarks with random or transactional (IOPS) performance of spinning drives, which is … Continue reading →

February 17th, 2012: Symantec Sues VEEAM and Acronis over Drive imaging

Drive imaging has become a way of life for those who want fast backup to our removable drive products. We like the idea of allowing our customers to choose their favorite software. Those choices may become more limited or costly … Continue reading →

February 16th, 2012: Removable Drive Support for Imaging: Symantec, Acronis, ShadowProtect, Appasure etc.

How does Automatic Mirroring Technology (AMT) help you to provide removable drive support for imaging software? What if you need to create extra local data copies, and still support continuous incremental images (including consolidating or collapsing those incremental chains by … Continue reading →

February 16th, 2012: Backup Speed to NAS and DAS

NAS (Network Attached Storage) and DAS (Direct Attached Storage) removable backup devices can have different speeds depending on the data rate of the interface as well as the speed of the device and hard drives being used. The speeds below are backup … Continue reading →

January 25th, 2012: Understanding Deduplication and Single Instance Storage

The new Workstation Backup Appliance is a Windows based NAS with a removable drive that includes software to backup windows and Mac workstations. One of the key features in this product is file level deduplication. This feature was written for … Continue reading →

January 20th, 2012: Slow Backup? Try ShadowProtect

One of the most common problems we hear is that a full backup takes longer than one night to complete (The slow backup problem). Here at Highly Reliable Systems, we’ve tested a variety of backup software and have found that … Continue reading →

October 25th, 2011: Preparing for Disaster: How to Boot Directly from High-Rely Media into Shadow Protect Recovery Environment

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Ben Franklin One of the more popular backup software packages is StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect. This document discusses preparing an emergency recovery environment using that software that will work with any … Continue reading →