Archive for 2015

Notable Customers

Below is a selection of BackupChain backup software customers in random order (also check out our BackupChain User Testimonials): Last Update: March 20, 2024: United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin The University of Hong Kong (https://www.hku.hk/) The State of Maryland Government (https://www.maryland.gov) General Dynamics Mission Systems, Canada (https://gdmissionsystems.ca/) City Government, Police Department in […]

How to Fix SQL Error: 18210, Severity: 16, Error 3041

When backing up a VM that runs SQL Server inside you may run into the following issue. The VM backup fails and the Event Viewer on the host reports a VSS writer inside the VM failed. Upon inspection of the VM’s Event Viewer and SQL Server’s logs you find: Error: 18210, Severity: 16 and Error […]

Copy Long Path Names and Deep Folders over 240 Characters

If you are stuck trying to back up or copy long path names over 240 characters long, you are not alone.   Did you know Windows NTFS supports nested, long paths and folders reaching well over 32,000 characters? And, Windows Explorer itself will produce errors when you are trying to work with deep folders over […]

Hyper-V Disadvantages: How Hyper-V Costs You

Microsoft uses an old but effective strategy of selling “interrelated components”. You want X to work? Then you need to buy A, B, C and spend a many work hours (and lots of dollars, too), only to find out: • Everything about A, B, and C before you understand how they work together • it doesn’t work: the […]