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XZ Utils Backdoor 

3 April 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesXZ Utils (formerly LZMA Utils) provides a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. March 29, 2024 is a day that will hardly be forgotten by the open source community: Andres Freund disclosed his findings about the compromise in the XZ Utils, which would enable an attacker to silently gain access to a targeted affected system. CVE-2024-3094 is a vulnerability discovered in the open-source library XZ Utils that stems from malicious code that was pushed into the library by one of its maintainers.

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Are tapes still relevant?

1 April 2024
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LTO Tapes

Reading Time: 4 minutesMore than 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the question is backup to tape dead? The answer was no, but what about tapes usage now, on 2024? Data has grow and the demand of solution to manage cold data also. For this reason there is a high investment in cold data storage solution and tape is still relevant also today!

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World Backup Day 2024

31 March 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMarch 31st is the day to back up and better protect your data. It’s the World Backup Day! World Backup Day has a clear, compelling message that is just as relevant and timely for enterprises today as it is for individual consumers: “Be prepared against data loss and data theft.” The organizers of World Backup Day tout March 31st as “the day to prevent data loss.” Indeed, this should be a mandate every day. With data backup as king in a chess game-like strategy to combat cyberattacks, preparation is everything.

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Proxmox backup support in NAKIVO

20 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNAKIVO has just released a new solution to back up and recover Proxmox VM data. Proxmox Backup Solution by NAKIVO that is already available to download.  https://www.nakivo.com/proxmox-backup/

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What is SONiC?

14 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSoftware for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. SONiC is the open networking solution used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud: is the networking switch software used in the lower layer of Azure Datacenter fabric (TOR and Aggregation).

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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN – Manual mode

11 March 2024
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Reading Time: 6 minutesVeeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. Probably the best way to manage it is from the Veeam Backup Console, as described in the previous article. But it’s also possible manage it manually.

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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN – Managed mode

8 March 2024
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Reading Time: 6 minutesVeeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. In this post, we will see how use it in amanaged mode, buy automatically installing and configuring it via the Veeam Backup Console.

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