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How to protect your data using Uranium Backup! Guides, tutorials, tips & tricks for beginners and advanced users

HowTo: create a Drive Image with Uranium

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Davide Costantini
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If you want to protect your system against machine failures you need to perform a Drive Image Backup: a full copy of your disk. It’s a long task, the first time it takes hours but for the next copies it … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic, Tutorials | Tagged backup, drive, Image, uranium

HowTo: Run Uranium Backup as a service

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Davide Costantini
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There are situations where you need to run a backup software as a service. An office PC could be a good example: administrators don’t want people to mess with the backup settings and restrict the users permissions. How could you do that? Read this tutorial! Continue reading →

Posted in Basic, Tutorials | Tagged service, Uranium Backup

HowTo: connect an iSCSI target to ESXi

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Davide Costantini

You already know that VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere is the most adopted hypervisor and perhaps you want to try to build a home virtualized environments. Maybe you don’t know how to connect your SAN to the OS. So I want to help … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced, Tutorials | Tagged ESXi, iSCSI, VMWare, vSphere

How to back up your site using Uranium

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Davide Costantini

Today I’ll explain a basic feature of Uranium Backup: FTP backup. Webmasters and site builders need to protect their work from unpleasent accidents. Hosting providers generally back up your site daily or weekly, but it’s important to have at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic, Tutorials | Tagged backup, FTP, tutorial, uranium

How to: ESXi/vSphere backup with Uranium

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Davide Costantini

ESXi/vSphere is a very popular virtualization platform. Developed by VMware, it serves the 67.6% of server virtualization market and the 58.4% of virtual desktop one, according to the latest V-index report. Such a widespread OS can’t be ignored and Freesoft … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced, Tutorials | Tagged ESXi, tutorial, uranium, Virtual Machines, vSphere

How to: iSCSI target on Win Server 2008 R2

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Davide Costantini
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Today I’m going to explain how to configure an iSCSI target on the latest Microsoft server operating system. This tutorial won’t work with previous versions of Windows Server. Following a few steps, you will be able to manage iSCSI targets … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced, Tutorials | Tagged 2008 R2, iSCSI, Microsoft, server, target, windows

How to configure an iSCSI target

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Davide Costantini

If you aren’t a system administrator maybe you don’t know what iSCSI is. It’s a network protocol that let you send SCSI commands to a host machine. The purpose? Simple, it let you use a NAS (or a SAN) as an internal drive. Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced, Tutorials | Tagged iSCSI, nas, target, tutorial, windows

How to use Uranium’s FTP client

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Davide Costantini

FTP (File Trasfer Protocol) is a network protocol that allows a host to trasfer files to another one through a TCP network. It’s a widely adopted standard and it can be used to upload websites and perform backups. Uranium Backup … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic, Tutorials | Tagged client, FTP, SSL, uranium

How to back up your MS SQL Server with Uranium

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Davide Costantini
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Data aren’t all the same. While it’s very important to protect files and documents, databases are a fundamental component of the software we use and we have to do more to protect them. Uranium Backup is designed keeping in mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced, Tutorials | Tagged backup, Microsoft, server, SQL, uranium

How to schedule a backup with Uranium

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Davide Costantini

This time I’ll show you a basic feature of Uranium Backup, the scheduler. This component is a very important one because it allows to configure automated backups. It’s very easy to use so I won’t spend many words on it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic, Tutorials | Tagged backup, scheduler, uranium

How to perform a tape backup with Uranium

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Davide Costantini
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Thanks to their long durability and high capacity, tapes are a well-suited solution for the backup of your business data. Uranium Backup supports almost every tape drive currently available but the average user may find the backup procedure a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced, Tutorials | Tagged backup, tape, uranium

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