Author: Michael Paul | @MicoolPaul
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Google: Egress Fees Waived – The Reality vs The Marketing
Google Cloud Platform has been making news recently with many headlines claiming egress fees have been waived, but *spoiler alert*, they haven’t. In this article I’ve attempted to separate the marketing from the reality to explain how these changes will really impact you.
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Veeam & Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024
Times change, and software changes with them, until it’s no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the software no longer being backed up properly, or not working at all in production. Without valid support there’s no process to…
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Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements
One lesser discussed improvement in Veeam B&R v12 is the compression improvements they’ve made when working at higher compression levels. Full benchmarks and details inside this blog post.
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Veeam B&R x Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob
If you’re using Veeam Backup & Replication and Microsoft Azure Storage and you find yourself with the ‘Failed to Copy Blob’ error, this post just might help!
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Veeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck
Ever had Veeam get stuck when attempting to migrate your NAS Cache repository data? In this post I show you how to gracefully resolve this stuck task, and another way of migrating the data.
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Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type
NAS Backups and Symlinks don’t have to be enemies, in this blog post I show you how to work around this within Veeam Backup & Replication!
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Veeam B&R: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks
Tell me if you’ve seen this situation before. You’ve got some servers & applications that need protecting. You create your backup jobs as necessary, there’s different backup jobs for your various application-integration requirements, backup frequencies, and retention requirements, it’s starting to sprawl. Inevitably there’s some job scheduling overlap. Backup jobs are waiting for other backup…
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OVH Network Security Architecture Considerations
OVH is a great way to get a hosted server cheaply, especially one with such strong global backbone connectivity and performance. However, most people don’t seem to know how to properly secure them. I’ve rounded up some key points and concepts in this blog post to help you get started!
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How to Actually Increase Powerline Adapter Throughput
I’ve been tinkering with my Powerline adapters recently, on a mission to improve the bandwidth available to my office. I’ve been familiar with Powerline adapters for a long time, having started with some of those “up to 85Mbps” devices. Imagine my disappointment when I couldn’t get even 16Mbps through it on my slow ADSL internet…
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Data Protection Considerations: Digesting the SQL ConstantCare Report
For those of you who don’t spend much time or have much experience with SQL Server, Brent Ozar is a well-known and respected Microsoft SQL consultant. In addition to consultancy and training services, Brent Ozar offers tools such as the First Responder Kit, and a SQL Server monitoring service called SQL ConstantCare. SQL ConstantCare is…
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