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Tips for scheduling and testing SQL Server backups

2008-04-01 13:43:35 by Heidi Sweeney in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Whether you're using SQL Server or SQL Server Express Edition, these tips for scheduling backups will lead you to a successful restore. You'll learn how to schedule backups in SQL Server via the SQL Server Agent and in SQL Server Express using Windows Task Scheduler. SQL Server expert Denny Cherry also shares how to test and secure your backups
 
Tags: sql server, sql server express, backups, sql server agent, schedule backups, windows task scheduler, tips, successful restore, shares
 
 
 
 
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Do you do personnel backups?

2008-02-01 13:03:09 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
The idea may sound strange, at first. Nevertheless, the meaning is similar to the idea we have become familiar with when it comes to computer data. If you dont do backups, you are at risk of losing something valuable. With people, its the same thing. Except in some smaller organizations in highly regulated industries where skill-sets
 
Tags: computer data, backups, idea, sound strange, similar, people, organizations, valuable, skill-sets
 
 
 
 
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Reducing the size of network backups in Windows

2008-04-16 08:57:43 by Brien M. Posey in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
By excluding network backups of unwanted file types, admins can decrease the amount of space consumed on a network while speeding up the nightly backup process
 
Tags: network, network backups, nightly backup process, file types, space, decrease, amount, admins
 
 
 
 
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Re-enable Exchange Server 2007 remote streaming backups in SP1

2008-05-08 09:55:41 by Brien Posey in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Read about a workaround that edits the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 registry in Service Pack 1 (SP1) to re-enable remote streaming backups
 
Tags: microsoft exchange server, sp1, re-enable remote, backups, service pack, registry, edits, workaround
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...backups or sharing it on a P2P network Encryption is defined as the science and study of secret writing. What is it that the media industry is trying to keep secret? While we may want I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Whos Your Caddy to be some sort of secret internal referendum on the crap the entertainment industry regularly produces,...
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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The role of control depth in assessment quality

2007-09-12 12:17:00 by Bryan in practical risk management
 
...backups are taken and stored offsite. You have to ask how often. You have to ask where the tapes are stored before being transported offsite (hint: "under the receptionist's desk" isn't going to cut it). You have to ask whether backup tapes are encrypted. You have to ask whether backups are periodically test-restored to confirm their...
 
Tags: audit, external sox audit, physical security, security audit, questions, pretty in-depth questions, dig deeper, control, surface
 
 
 
 
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Nepalese Government site Hacked

2007-12-15 23:20:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Nepalese government site has been pwned by an Iranian Black Hat Team yesterday. The nepalese government filled with moron ministers are still not able to bring back the site online probably because they do not have the backups. Keep in mind this is the governments main site
 
Tags: nepalese government, nepalese government site, governments main site, site online, moron ministers, backups, mind, pwned
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...backups. Furthermore, he could sneak into my office and copy all this data, and I'd never know it Also this . Although why the Swedish Army doesn't encrypt its portable storage devices is beyond me
 
Tags: stick, memory stick, public computer center, computer, public computer, information, armed forces, swedish army, stick belongs
 
 
 
 
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Reproductive Medicine Center doctor loses patient data on flash drive

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2008-02-01 16:44:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...backups. If you must, then don't go WITHOUT strong encryption (and don't write down the key/password Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: drive, flash drive, flash, drive holds details, lost drive, sensitive personal information, information, social security information, data