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How to protect your backup from CryptoLocker and other ransomware using an FTP destination
Another way is to save the data in a NAS through FTP. A NAS is the perfect device to store your backups
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How to protect your backup folder from CryptoLocker and other ransomware in an Active Directory Domain Services
We are going to show how to create a secure folder that only the domain administrator and the backup user
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The solution to CryptoLocker and Ransomware? Prevention
CryptoLocker is a ransomware a malware that silently encrypts data to ask for a ransom to decrypt them, a true
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GDPR and backups: best practices
Note that this article is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to and should not be relied upon
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GDPR and encryption
Note that this article is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to and should not be relied upon
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GDPR: guide to compliance
Note that this article is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to and should not be relied upon
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How to install the Uranium Backup service
Discover in just a minute how to install Uranium Backup as a service! The service allows Uranium to perform backups
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How to configure an incremental/differential backup of files
Discover in just a minute how to configure an Incremental/Differential backup of files and folders. The most efficient way to
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How to configure a backup to FTP with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure a backup to FTP with Uranium Backup! The Backup to FTP can
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How to configure a Drive Image Backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure a Drive Image Backup (also known as System Backup) with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure a backup to tape with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure a backup to tape with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure an Exchange backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to back up your Microsoft Exchange mailboxes with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure an SQL server backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure the backup of an SQL Server database with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure a MySQL backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure the backup of a MySQL database with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure a MariaDB backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure the backup of a MariaDB database with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure an Hyper-V backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure the backup of an Hyper-V virtual machine, with Uranium Backup!
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How to configure a VMware vSphere backup with Uranium Backup
Discover in just a minute how to configure the backup of a VMware vSphere virtual machine, with Uranium Backup!
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1.Activate Uranium Backup Professional
You can manage your backups directly from the Console, by subscribing to a Uranium Backup Professional plan, or by activating
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2.Connecting an Uranium Backup client to Professional
Uranium Backup Professional enables connection, grouping, and organization of Uranium Backup clients. With this plan you can manage your clients
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3.Manage your backup sets
You can manage your backups directly from the Console, by subscribing to a Uranium Backup Professional plan, or by starting
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4.Check the results of your backup sets
After connecting the Uranium Backup clients, the Console starts collecting the data of the backup sets performed. For each Group
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5.Receive summary emails on backup results
You can manage your backups directly from the Console, by subscribing to a Uranium Backup Professional plan, or by starting
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6.Enable notifications for specific events
You can manage your backups directly from the Console, by subscribing to a Uranium Backup Professional plan, or by starting
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7.Check your backup history
You can manage your backups directly from the Console, by subscribing to a Uranium Backup Professional plan, or by starting
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8.Check the infrastructure of Uranium Backup
With Uranium professional “infrastructure” feature, you can remotely monitor all information regarding the status of Uranium backup and related backupsets,
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Is Uranium Backup GDPR-compliant?
Yes, it is. In order to help you with the GDPR compliance, we prepared three technical articles: GDPR: guide to
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Can I uninstall Uranium Backup?
The following page provides steps on how to uninstall Uranium Backup.
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1. Configuring a tape backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Tape and Gold editions. Thanks to their long durability and high capacity, tapes are a
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2. Restoring from a tape backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Tape and Gold editions. To restore a backup from a tape, open the Restore menu and select Restore from
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What is Quiescing? How do you configure it in Uranium?
According to the definition provided by the official VMware website, Quiescing is a process where the data that are present on the disk
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What are the advantages of installing the Uranium Backup service?
The installation of the Uranium Backup service allow to manage execution collisions between 2 or more backups that might run
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How do I export the backup set logs?
To export a log of a backup set execution, just right-click on the log and select Export log:
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How do I enable synchronization?
To enable synchronization, right-click on the element you want to synchronize and select Enable/Disable file deletion in the destinations (direct
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Why can’t Uranium access to mapped drives?
LWindows loads network mapped drives at the logon. For this reason, we suggest to alway specify network drives with absolute
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What’s the difference between incremental and differential backup?
An incremental backup is a copy of the data created and modified since the latest backup execution, both incremental or
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Why does Uranium skip the full backup?
While configuring the incremental / differential files and folders backup, Uranium allows to specify a day of the week for
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Why does Uranium ignore the General Options of the backup set?
The General Options of the backup set only affect the copies performed inside the Common Destinations. So, you must enable
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What are VMware Virtual Disk Storage APIs (VDDK) for?
The use of the VDDK APIs is allowed by VMware only with ESXi licensed hosts. VDDK libraries allow: better backup
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Why does Uranium give the error not enough space?
It’s required an amount of free disk space of two times the virtual machine size in order to complete the
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Why can’t I restore an Hyper-V VM?
In some cases of restore performed on servers with different hardware (compared to the original machine), Uranium may not be
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How can I recover a single file from a Drive Image backup?
With Windows 8 and higher, you just need to access the WindowsImageBackup folder, where the Drive Image backup is stored,
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Why can’t I complete a Drive Image backup to RDX?
In order to complete with success a Drive Image backup to RDX, the drive must be configured in Fixed mode.
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Why can’t I restore a machine from a Drive Image backup?
In order to successfully complete a restore of a machine it’s required that: the folder WindowsImageBackup, ontaining the backup, must
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How do I change the IP address of an Exchange Server?
Uranium Backup must be installed on the same machine of the Exchange Server in order to perform the backup of
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Why doesn’t Drive Image delete previous backups?
For a fully functional Drive Image backup (delta update, volume mounting, bare metal restore), the backup must be performed on
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Why does the Exchange backup give an authentication error?
To successfully complete the Exchange backup directly to a NAS, or to any network path, the users of the group
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Why does the Exchange backup not truncate transaction logs?
Uranium can back up Exchange mailboxes, in .pstformat, not the entire Exchange server. For this reason, there’s no procedure to
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Why can’t Uranium verify the integrity of a SQL Server backup?
Occassionally, you need to clean the SQL Backup and Restore History. For more information, refer to this article from Microsoft:
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Why can’t Uranium copy a remote SQL Server backup to common destinations?
Permissions must be carefully configured when you set up a remote SQL Server backup with both main and common destinations.
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Why is the end of tape reached?
Tapes are affordable and reliable storage peripherals but their maximum capacity is affected by several variables. We published this article
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How can I back up data to multiple tapes?
Uranium Backup doesn’t support append backups and multisession tapes. It fully erases the tape at every execution of the backup.
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Why doesn’t Uranium allow to rotate tapes?
Tape libraries / autoloaders are not supported. Uranium only supports single slot tape drives.
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Are the Uranium Backup licenses lifetime?
Yes, all the Uranium Backup licenses are lifetime. You can purchase and activate Uranium Backup directly from our e-commerce. The
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Do I need to pay for extra support or future updates?
All the commercial licenses of Uranium Backup includes – and always included – free support and updates. These policies may
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Can I perform backups of VMs on VMware ESXi Free Hypervisor hosts?
Yes, you can perform hot backups of virtual machines running on VMware ESXi Free Hypervisor hosts. Free Hypervisor hosts doesn’t
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How many databases can I back up with a Pro DB or Gold license?
You can back up an unlimited number of databases running on an unlimited number of servers (MySQL, MariaDB e SQL
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How many licenses do I need to perform Drive Image backups of 3 servers?
In order to perform Drive Image backups, Uranium must be installed on the machine of which it performs the copy.
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3. How to optimize the tape capacity
There’s a lot of confusion regarding the advertised and effective capacities of the tapes. Usually the cartridge box shows the
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1. Activating Uranium Backup
Follow these steps to activate your licenses: 1. Download Uranium Backup from this page and install it 2. Launch Uranium
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2. Using the Uranium Backup scheduler
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions, Free included. Let’s talk about a basic feature of Uranium Backup, the scheduler.
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3. Running Uranium Backup as a service
Feature available in all Uranium Backup commercial editions. There are situations in which you need to run a backup software as a service.
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1. Using the ftp client
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions, Free included. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a network protocol that allows a host to
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1. Configuring a microsoft sql server backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold editions. Data aren’t all the same. While it’s very important to protect
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2. Configuring a ftp backup
Feature available in all Uranium Backup commercial editions. Let’s see a basic feature of Uranium Backup: the FTP backup. Webmasters and site builders need to
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1. Configuring a drive image backup
Feature available in all Uranium Backup commercial editions. Drive image backup is available on Vista, 2008, 7 and later systems If you want
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1. Configuring a VMWARE ESX / ESXI / VSPHERE backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Gold editions. ESX/ESXi/vSphere is a very popular virtualization platform, developed by VMware. Such a widespread OS
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1. Configuring an exchange mailboxes backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold editions. Note: Uranium can perform mailbox backups of Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 and
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1. Using the cloud client
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions and also as a free standalone product. Since version 8.9.0 we introduced a Cloud
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2. Configuring a cloud backup to AMAZON S3, ONEDRIVE, GOOGLE DRIVE OR BOX
Feature available in all Uranium Backup commercial editions. Since version 9.3.0, Uranium Backup can back up your data to several cloud storage services. We
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2. Configuring a VMWARE ESX(I) / VSPHERE incremental backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Gold editions. Uranium Backup 8.10 brings several improvements to the ESX(i)/vSphere backup functionalities. The most
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4. Using the special strings
The special strings are a set of strings that can be specified in paths and names. General: %UN%: the name
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3. Configuring a VMWARE ESX(I) / VSPHERE replica of a virtual machine
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Gold editions. Since version 9.4.0, Uranium Backup can perform replications – also known as replicas
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4. Configuring a hyper-v virtual machine backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Gold editions. Since version 8.9.5 Uranium can perform backups of virtual machines running on Hyper-V hosts. A
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2. Restoring a SQL server database
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions, Free included. To restore a Microsoft SQL Server database, open the Restore menu and select Restore SQL Server
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5. Restoring an ESX(I) / VSPHERE virtual machine
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Gold editions. To restore a VMware ESX(i)/vSphere virtual machine, open the Restore menu and select Restore an
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6. Restoring a HYPER-V virtual machine
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro Virtual and Gold editions. To restore a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine, open the Restore menu and select Restore a
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5.How to use Uranium Backup encryption
Cryptography is a Uranium Backup feature available in the General Options of the software, in the tab General, at the
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1. Configuring a files and folders backup (synchronization, exclusions, compression, encryption, locked files, rotation)
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions, Free included. Files and folders backup is the simplest and most common type
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2. Restoring a microsoft exchange mailbox
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold editions. Note: Uranium can perform mailbox backups (and restore) of Microsoft Exchange 2010
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2. Configuring a system state backup
Feature available in all Uranium Backup commercial editions. In a nutshell, a System State backup is a “lightweight” edition of the drive image backup, available
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3. Restoring from a drive image backup
Drive Image backups (also known as system image backups) performed by Uranium are fully compliant with Microsoft specifications, allowing you to perform restore operations without the
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4.How to execute the restore from a Drive Image backup with the Uranium Backup Recovery Disk
In order to recover a Drive Image backup, you have to use the recovery disk of Uranium Backup. To create
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5. Restoring from a system state backup
A System State backup includes the following components: Boot files, including the system files, and all files protected by Windows File Protection
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2. Configuring a files and folders incremetal or differential backup
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions, Free included. Since version 9, Uranium Backup can perform incremental backup and/or differential backups of files
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3. Configuring a MYSQL / MARIADB database backup
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold editions. Since version 9.1.0 Uranium Backup can perform backups of MySQL and MariaDB
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4. Restoring a MYSQL / MARIADB database
Feature available in Uranium Backup Pro DB and Gold editions. To restore a MySQL / MariaDB database from a backup follow these simple
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7. Backup and restore of vSphere VMs: required permissions
The account used to perform backup operations via Uranium must have the following permissions: Privilege level Permission required Datastore FileManagment
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3. How to restore from a files and folders incremental or differential backup
Feature available in all Uranium Backup editions, Free included. To restore from a files and folders incremental or differential backup,
Manual, Files and folders backup