Author: Sebastian Straub

Sebastian is the Principle Solutions Architect at N2WS with more than 20 years of IT experience. With his charismatic personality, sharp sense of humor, and wealth of expertise, Sebastian effortlessly navigates the complexities of AWS and Azure to break things down in an easy-to-understand way.

AWS SQL Server Backup

05/12/2014
Sebastian Straub

MySQL on EC2: Consistent Backup and Log Purging using EBS Snapshots and N2W

MySQL is probably the most popular relational database used for web apps and websites. It's widely used on Amazon EC2.

AWS EBS Snapshot

05/08/2014
Sebastian Straub

EBS Snapshots: Should I trust transaction logs and file system Journaling?

As you may know, EBS snapshots are crash-consistent by nature. In practice, this means that the recovery process of a

Backup and Recovery

04/24/2014
Sebastian Straub

Backup-as-a-service (BaaS) on Amazon EC2: Six Requirements MSPs Must Consider

AWS EC2 Backup

04/16/2014
Sebastian Straub

Windows Backup on EC2: Introduction to Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Volume Shadow Copy Service, or VSS, is a Windows service that allows you to take "shadow copies" of your volumes,

AWS Disaster Recovery

04/08/2014
Sebastian Straub

Don’t Lose IT: Tier-1 Application Backup on Amazon Cloud

Enterprises are moving more and more applications and data centers into the public cloud. However, it's your responsibility to protect

AWS EC2 Backup

04/02/2014
Sebastian Straub

Disk Array Backup on EC2 Part III: LVM backup with EBS Volumes

How to perform a backup on an LVM data volume that spans multiple EBS volumes and make sure the snapshots

AWS EC2 Backup

04/02/2014
Sebastian Straub

Disk Array Backup on EC2 Part II: Consistency Issues

AWS EC2 Backup

03/28/2014
Sebastian Straub

Disk Array Backup on EC2 Part I: Concepts

Backup and Recovery

03/24/2014
Sebastian Straub

Backup vs. Replication in the Cloud, Part II: Five Data Loss Scenarios