https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/blog/tags/backup-strategy/Recent content in Backup Strategy on Catalogic SoftwareHugoen-usSun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/blog/understanding-rto-and-rpo/Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/blog/understanding-rto-and-rpo/<p>Two numbers govern most of what a backup administrator does. The first is how long the business can be down after a failure, and the second is how much data it can afford to lose. Those are the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and they sit at the centre of any <a href="https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/other/2020/04/24/protecting-data-from-ransomware-and-other-data-los/final">disaster recovery plan</a> worth the name. They get confused with each other constantly, because both are expressed in units of time and both get tighter as the system gets more important. They measure different things.</p>https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/blog/vmware-backup-best-practices/Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/blog/vmware-backup-best-practices/<p>Hardware failures, software faults, cyberattacks, and the occasional flooded server room all end the same way if the backups are not right. For most organizations running <a href="https://www.vmware.com">VMware</a>, the virtual estate holds the systems the business actually runs on, which makes VMware backup less a precaution than a basic operating requirement. This guide covers how to choose a backup tool, prepare the environment, run the backups, and verify they will restore.</p> <h2 id="choosing-the-right-vmware-backup-software">Choosing the Right VMware Backup Software</h2> <p>Selecting backup software for a VMware environment comes down to how well it integrates with vSphere, how efficiently it moves data, and how reliable its restore path is. Commvault, Rubrik, Veeam, and Catalogic DPX are the names that come up most often, and all of them will back up a VM.</p>