Are you an industriously busy backup administrator, or are you lazy? When I started in IT in 1996, it wasn’t…
When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…
You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…
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Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…
I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…
When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…
Having spent what seemed like much of 1999 coordinating the system administration efforts of a major Y2K project for an…