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Backup 101: What is a data backup plan?

Without having a proper backup plan in place, you're setting your business up for failure. For a small company, you might be thinking...

Need a safe place to save your backups off-site?

Use DATASTOR Shield seamless cloud storage integration Recovery of your valuable data is what it’s all about, and storing backups locally...

Creating a service account with restricted permissions

A best practice for your DATASTOR software installation and configuration is to run tasks with a service account. In a domain...

Data Loss: A Major Cost to Business

It’s a risk that many businesses, especially small ones, don’t think about regularly - and that can be a costly mistake. Data loss forces...

Use the Daily Checkup Report to Spot Issues Quickly

We think some of the recent improvements to the Checkup Report are noteworthy and will make zeroing in on problems much easier than in...

Ransomware: how to avoid and recover from this sinister threat

Dubbed one of “the biggest PC threats in 2016” by IT security company Trend Micro, ransomware is a nasty form of malware that affects...

Duplicating the Deduplication

Our mission to deduplicate and archive your critical company data using a store (on disk) as efficiently as possible led to several...

Check the Integrity of Your Backups with Store Verify Tasks

Heading up support I have a good feel for customer sticking points. It’s why everybody in support’s job is to act as a customer advocate...

How Many Stores Do I Need?

Customers often ask, “How many stores do I need?” That’s a proper question to ask as you plan and modify your DATASTOR installation. And...

Free Up More Space with Expiration and Purge

Expiration and purge work together to keep a certain number of restore points available for data recovery and to permanently delete items...

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