Apart from file-level backup, there is also the block-level backup, better known as image backup. It is an advanced backup method that creates a copy of your whole system.

An item-level backup backs up discrete collections of information that are addressed as individual items, and the most common type of item is a file. In fact, if this article were being written ...

The rise of the cloud, the emergence of hyper-convergence and the lightning-fast speeds of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash have perhaps masked some of the fundamentals of storage. But, at ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...