Server Backup and BitLocker
Mark Berry July 22, 2010
A lot of attention has been given to encrypting laptops because they are often stolen and their drives may contain sensitive company information.
Another popular topic is the need to store backup data off site so you can recover in case of disaster. In the small business arena, this is often accomplished by saving the data to external hard drives that are rotated off site.
But how secure are those backup drives once they leave your office? While a laptop may contain excerpts of data, that server backup drive contains all of your proprietary data, and likely private information about your clients as well. What happens if that drive is lost or stolen, either while en route or while stored off site?
More...Back Up SQL 2005 without Full-Text Index
Mark Berry July 15, 2010
This script was supposed to be a download from the previous post, Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express. However, WordPress won’t let me set up a SQL script or a zip file as a download, so I’m putting this out there as a plain old post. I’ll use a <pre> tag so it may overlap the right column, but at least it won’t contain HTML. Cut and paste!
More...Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express
Mark Berry July 15, 2010
For the last several years, I’ve been running Liberum Help Desk on SQL 2000 under IIS 6. With my recent upgrade to Small Business Server 2008, I needed to move the Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express and IIS 7. Here are my notes on the process.
More...Careful with Image-Based Backup of Exchange and Active Directory
Mark Berry May 3, 2010
Any image-based snapshot tool requires extra setup if Exchange or Active Directory is involved.
More...Setting Up Windows Server Backup on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Mark Berry November 19, 2009
Part of my testing of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 will be the built-in backup solution. But although Windows Server Backup it is a built-in feature, it is not enabled by default. Here’s how to activate it and to register the VSS writer so it will tell your virtual machines to do a snapshot for the backup.
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