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With storage capacities growing by leaps and bounds, the need for effective backup is even more important. We look at your options.
Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further.
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Everyone needs backups, but how do you recover a server quickly? We look at some of the options available for snapshot backup and other disaster recovery techniques.
It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business.
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