FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 7-22-05: The Backup News Channel

I’m on vacation with my extended family this week, and though we’ve been promised high-speed internet access where we’re staying, I thought it would be a good idea to put an article “in the can,” so to speak, and program it to go out, so you wouldn’t miss your reminder even if I couldn’t get through to the Net. (And yes, I took my backup drive with me. Traveling is the perfect time for something to go wrong, at least according to Murphy’s Law—not to mention the small children who will be running around.)

Back when I started writing this newsletter, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to think of something new about the subject of backups every week. That was before I signed onto Google News Alerts. Now I get several possible topics every day. I can’t know a week in advance what will come up in the world of backup between 16 and 22 July, but I can give you a sample of what arrives in my inbox on a daily basis.

I should say that I’ve edited these listings—the news alerts also usually include entries about traffic backups and backup players on sports teams. Even so, as you can see, I get many more possible topics each week than I can write about—and more, I’m pretty certain, than you actually want to read. So I select the items which seem most relevant to home office and small business users, follow the links, do a little research, and prepare my week’s article.

If any of these headlines looks interesting to you, click on the link. And if you see anything you want me to write about, just let me know.

July 1

EMC Dantz Retrospect Strengthens Encryption, Backup to Disk, and ...
CTR - Los Angeles, CA, USA
... ProtecTIER platform a... ViaRemote Backup and Recovery Service Protects Branch Offices, SMBs, Mobile Workers Sto... EMC Corporation ...

Attackers seek vulnerable Veritas Backup installations
ComputerWorld - USA
last week in its remote backup agent to take control of computers running the software, according to the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). ...

Backup Service Shell Game
InfoWorld - USA
... your money? That's the situation one reader suspects he finds himself in with a data backup service called Virtual Backup. "A couple ...

July 6

StorageQuest Announces REFLECTOR™ for Primera® - a Network ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA ... July 6, 2005 -- StorageQuest Inc., the leader in network attached optical storage management, today announced the REFLECTOR line of Network Backup & Archive ...

Data Protection Management and Backup Reporting Helps Companies ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
As the demand to meet compliance requirements increases, so does the need to bolster security, storage and backup reporting in IT. ...

Zycko to distribute Asigra's agentless backup and recovery ...
eBCVG - USA
Asigra™, the technology specialist in agentless distributed backup and recovery software for network computing, today announced that it has signed its newest ...

Disk-to-disk Appliances Add Hot Backup
ENT News - USA
Unitrends is shipping new software for its disk-to-disk backup and restore appliances that enables administrators to back up the entire system all the way down ...

Webcast: How to solve the biggest backup & restore problems facing ...
ZDNet - USA
Slow backups running into key productivity hours. Running out of backup capacity. Changing backup tapes after hours and on weekends. ...

July 8

RAID and removable disk in one backup appliance
ComputerWorld - USA
The company said the product would be cost-effective for branch offices that might otherwise need to have separate nearline and tape backup devices. ...

Tape Alternatives Multiply
InternetNews.com - USA
... Not only is the pace of the advance accelerating, but users are now faced with an ever-broadening choice of technologies for backup, archiving and other ...

Alcyone Backup
Pressbox.co.uk (press release) - London, UK
... So far there's no universal cure from data loss and the best way to protect your files is to backup them. Alcyone Backup is a simple ...

July 9

Microsoft takes disk-based backup for a spin
CNET News.com - USA
The product, dubbed System Center Data Protection Manager, is designed to tempt more companies to try disk-based backup and recovery through a tried-and-true ...

Newport International Group's Spare Backup Inc. Establishes ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
PALM DESERT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 2005--Spare Backup Inc., a subsidiary of Newport International Group (OTCBB:NWPO), announced today that it has ...

MS Prepping Disk-Based Backup Launch
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
... DPM 2006, however, is the company's stab at the corporate backup and recovery space. The offering is aimed at businesses looking ...

Fastora ExBoot EXB-0111 Backup and Recovery device
LetsGoDigital - Emst,Gelderland,Netherlands
... "The ExBoot is the perfect backup solution for the masses because of its small ... It features a one-touch button, which launches the automated backup software. ...

July 12

MS launches disk-based continuous backup product
Earthtimes.org - USA
It will be the first disk-based software solution of its type and is expected to help companies save much time that is spent on data backup and recovery. ...

Up Close: Backup computers are key in disaster plan
KHOU (subscription) - Houston,TX,USA
... vital services. CyrusOne houses backup computers for hundreds of Houston businesses, hospitals and government agencies. But it's ...

Newport International Group's Spare Backup Inc. Signs Reseller ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
PALM DESERT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2005--Newport International Group (OTCBB:NWPO) announced today that its Spare Backup Inc. ...

Plan B: Always Have a Backup
Small Business Computing - USA
... DRC: Small businesses benefit from a combination of user training and a backup plan that employees can access themselves to recover files they mistakenly ...

BakBone Introduces Backup Encryption Software to Safeguard ...
CCNMatthews (press release) - Toronto,ON,Canada
... software, is addressing customer demand for robust, automated and easy-to-manage security solutions with the introduction of advanced backup encryption software ...

July 13

Backup Encryption Mulled
Byteandswitch.com - New York, NY, USA
Given an alarming number of disappearing backup files in recent months, it's no surprise that Encrypt your backup! is the main message ...

Hackers exploit backup tool flaw
VNUNet.com - Haarlem, Netherlands
Internet security organisation the Cert Coordination Center have warned that hackers are exploiting flaws in Veritas Backup Exec software. ...

Spare Backup Establishes Reseller Network
WebHosting.Info - San Francisco, CA, USA
Company establishes reseller network for its online backup service; service costs $15.99 monthly and includes 5 gigabytes of remote storage. ...

UConn Foundation computer backup tapes stored at unauthorized site
WTNH - New Haven, CT, USA
(Storrs-AP, July 13, 2005 6:16 AM) _ The University of Connecticut Foundation has notified the campus community that computer backup tapes containing personal ...