A group of companies including AWS and Percona have stepped up to fund the maintenance of pgBackRest, an extension to the widely used open source database PostgreSQL, after its future was left hanging ...

WHO, ME? Welcome to Monday morning, the time of week when The Register always asks “Who, Me?” because that’s the title of our reader-contributed column in which you confess to having made a mess, and ...

Data centers have traditionally depended on uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and backup generators to keep them online during a power cut, grid event, or natural disaster. But the critical ...

When a SQL Server database goes down, it’s rarely a minor inconvenience. For enterprises, it can mean halted operations, lost revenue, and serious data integrity concerns. That’s where specialized ...

Microsoft now allows more enterprise users to restore their personal settings and Microsoft Store apps from a previous Windows 11 device. The feature, known as the first sign-in restore experience, is ...

Abstract: Many cloud databases provide fine-grained regular snapshots and sparsely deleted snapshots based on importance, and dynamically maintain large-scale snapshots to ensure data security and ...

WhatsApp allows users to back up and restore chats Before starting, make sure you have enough storage on your devices Backups include messages and media sent and received in chats ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Microsoft automatically turns on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. A recent, undocumented ...

Windows Backup and Restore is a built-in tool in Windows 11/10 computers that allows users to back up their hard drive partitions as disk image files. The time this tool takes to create a backup image ...