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10 articles tagged Disaster Recovery, newest first.
Proton Outage: What a Cooling Failure Exposed
Proton's August 27 outage began with a total cooling failure in Frankfurt, where room temperature rose from 21.8°C to 51.9°C in under 30 minutes.
NetBackup Backup Failures: Is 100% Success Realistic?
Is 100% NetBackup backup success realistic? Why 98% can be fine at 9,000 daily jobs, what to measure instead, and why restore tests matter more.
NetBackup Tape Restore: Verify and Recover Old Media
How to confirm a file is in a NetBackup backup with bplist or bpflist, and why Phase I and II import is usually safer than tar32.exe for old tapes.
DeadLock Ransomware: Lessons for Backup and Recovery
Microsoft's August 10, 2026 DeadLock analysis and what backup teams should take from it: separate failure domains, immutable copies, and tested restores.
Veeam Restore Mistake: How Dev Hit Production
A Veeam restore intended for development hit production because one hosts-file entry pointed the dev database name at the production IP.
You Don't Need Proxmox Backup Server Until the Day You Really Do
Proxmox Backup Server looks optional at first, then earns its place once deduplication, backup visibility and worst-case recovery planning come into play.
The Backups Are There, So Why Can't I Use Them After a Rebuild?
After a backup server rebuild, VM backups map back to new jobs cleanly while imported agent backups stay visible but cannot be mapped to any job.
AWS Backup Adds Native Amazon EKS Support: No More Backup Scripts
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS natively, backing up cluster state and persistent volumes without custom scripts or Velero. What users think so far.
HYCU vs Veeam vs Cohesity vs Catalogic for Small Nutanix Shops
HYCU vs Veeam vs Cohesity vs Catalogic for Nutanix backup: real operator feedback on restore speed, complexity, and total cost for smaller teams.
How One Bad API Call Took Down an Entire Ceph Cluster
One bad curl request crashed every Ceph monitor in a Proxmox homelab. How the admin rebuilt the monitor store from OSDs, and the API validation lesson.