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How to Choose the Best Proxmox Backup Solutions
Proxmox VE includes native backup and a robust ecosystem of backup tools. This guide explains its three backup layers, reviews six products, and provides six criteria to pick backup solutions for your infrastructure.
By Vinchin Solutions Team
Sep 20 2026
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How to Choose the Best Hyper-V Backup Software
This guide compares built-in Hyper-V backup methods with third-party software. It outlines essential features, including granular recovery, immutable storage, automated testing, and cluster scalability for protecting Hyper-V environments.
By Vinchin Solutions Team
Sep 09 2026
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Choosing the Best OpenStack Backup Software: Evaluation Criteria & Tool Comparison
OpenStack backup works differently from VMware due to missing changed‑block tracking, distributed state and disabled Cinder backup drivers. This guide outlines nine evaluation criteria, common selection mistakes, and comparisons of top OpenStack backup tools.
By Vinchin Solutions Team
Sep 15 2026
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What Should You Do in the First 24 Hours After a Ransomware Attack?
By Richard Yang
What Should You Do in the First 24 Hours After a Ransomware Attack?
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This guide gives a time-ordered ransomware response plan: contain the spread, assess the damage, preserve evidence, notify the right people, and restore safely from backups, plus the mistakes to avoid.
By Richard Yang
Oct 29 2026
What Is LAN-Free Backup and How Does It Reduce Production Network Load?
By Amelia Luo
What Is LAN-Free Backup and How Does It Reduce Production Network Load?
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LAN-free backup sends bulk backup data over a storage network rather than the production LAN. This article explains the mechanism, VMware transport options, limits, security implications and troubleshooting.
By Amelia Luo
Oct 29 2026
What Is JOB Orchestration and How Does It Automate Backup Workflows?
By Cassie Tang
What Is JOB Orchestration and How Does It Automate Backup Workflows?
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Learn how JOB Orchestration automates backup, verification, copy, and archive jobs. Discover how Vinchin simplifies VM backup workflows with automated dependencies, failure handling, and monitoring.
By Cassie Tang
Oct 28 2026
How to Back Up MySQL Databases: Best Practices for Hot Backup
By Richard Yang
How to Back Up MySQL Databases: Best Practices for Hot Backup
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This guide explains how to back up a MySQL database while it stays online, compares mysqldump, Percona XtraBackup, snapshots and replica backups, and lists MySQL backup best practices for consistency, recovery and verification.
By Richard Yang
Oct 28 2026
What Backup and Data Protection Requirements Does GDPR Impose on Businesses?
By Amelia Luo
What Backup and Data Protection Requirements Does GDPR Impose on Businesses?
14 Mins
This guide maps GDPR provisions to backup practice: Article 32 recoverability, retention, erasure in backups, breach notification and processor duties, with regulator guidance, EDPB examples and the Centric Health enforcement case.
By Amelia Luo
Oct 28 2026
Immutable Backup vs Air-Gapped Backup: What's the Difference and Do You Need Both?
By Amelia Luo
Immutable Backup vs Air-Gapped Backup: What's the Difference and Do You Need Both?
7 Mins
Immutable backups block changes and deletion for a retention period, while air-gapped backups remove access paths. This article compares them, explains their limits, and shows how to decide when both are needed.
By Amelia Luo
Oct 27 2026
What Is a VM Migration Readiness Checklist for Enterprises?
By Richard Yang
What Is a VM Migration Readiness Checklist for Enterprises?
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This guide explains what the VM migration checklist covers, gives a seven-area VM migration checklist with VMware migration examples, and shows how to decide go or no-go.
By Richard Yang
Oct 27 2026
What Is SpeedKit and How Does It Improve Backup Performance Without CBT Support?
By Cassie Tang
What Is SpeedKit and How Does It Improve Backup Performance Without CBT Support?
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SpeedKit accelerates VM incremental backups in Vinchin Backup & Recovery on supported platforms without native CBT. This article covers how SpeedKit works, supported platforms, comparisons with CBT, and key deployment considerations.
By Cassie Tang
Oct 27 2026
How to Back Up VMs in a Multi-Tenant Private Cloud Without Cross-Tenant Data Exposure
By Richard Yang
How to Back Up VMs in a Multi-Tenant Private Cloud Without Cross-Tenant Data Exposure
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This guide explains where cross-tenant data exposure occurs, how to design tenant isolation into the backup architecture, which five security controls to enforce, and how to test that the isolation holds across the console, the API, and the storage layer.
By Richard Yang
Oct 26 2026
Agentless vs. Agent-Based Backup: How Do They Actually Work Under the Hood?
By Richard Yang
Agentless vs. Agent-Based Backup: How Do They Actually Work Under the Hood?
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Agentless backup reads data from outside the guest through the hypervisor, while agent-based backup runs software inside each protected system. This guide explains how both work, how they keep data consistent, and when to use agentless VM backup.
By Richard Yang
Oct 22 2026
What is Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and How Does it Speed Up Incremental Backups?
By Amelia Luo
What is Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and How Does it Speed Up Incremental Backups?
6 Mins
This article explains how Changed Block Tracking records modified disk blocks, why that shortens incremental backups, in what scenario should rely on CBT, and CBT best practices.
By Amelia Luo
Oct 22 2026
What Is Point-in-Time Recovery for Databases and How Does It Work?
By Cassie Tang
What Is Point-in-Time Recovery for Databases and How Does It Work?
11 Mins
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) restores databases to a specific moment using full backups and transaction logs. Learn how PITR works, with practical examples and comparisons to backups and snapshots. Explore PITR support in MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and cloud databases.
By Cassie Tang
Oct 22 2026
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