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Best of the blog

In response to new technologies, product changes and user questions, we sometimes write blog articles that provide helpful advise and insights into BackupAssist and data protection.

Below is a summary of our most helpful articles grouped by topic.

General articles

BackupAssist's support for cluster shared volumes. Read the article.

BackupAssist's support for data de-duplication. Read the article.

BackupAssist's support for VSS application backups. Read the article.

BackupAssist's support for VSS application consistent backups. Read the article.

BackupAssist's support for VMWare backups. Read the article.

BackupAssist's support for Active Directory restores. Read the article.

Understanding BackupAssist's backup Methods (TBC). Read the article.

Best practice backups. Read the article.

Disaster recovery articles

IT outage best practice guide. Read the article.

A great disaster recovery graphic to explain a recovery in 4 steps. Read the article.

How to plan for a BackupAssist / RecoverAssist recovery. Read the article.

Scheduling articles

An introduction to scheduling with BackupAssist (TBC). Read the article.

How to use BackupAssist scheduling. Read the article.

Physical to Virtual (P2V) articles

What is P2V. Read the article.

P2V recovery and BackupAssist. Read the article.

How to perform a P2V recovery with BackupAssist. Read more.

Encryption articles

Introduction to backup encryption. Read the article.

BackupAssist's rsync and ZIP encryption solutions Read the article.

BackupAssist's BitLocker backup solution. Read the article.

Server Message Block (SMB) articles

What is SMB and what does it support. Read the article.

How to use SMB for remote VSS backups. Read the article.