Backup is Insurance

As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…

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Oh come on, pull the other one

I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…

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Snapshots and Backups, Part 2

Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…

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Snapshots and Backups

Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…

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Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode

(This is a local mirror posting of the guest blog piece I wrote for Parallels Consumer Tech Blog.) I made…

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All your data are belong to us

There’s a simple rule to remember when it comes to removable media handling (both within backups, and generally within IT)…

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January’s Top Post

I had hoped that the NetWorker Power User’s Guide to nsradmin micromanual might be popular enough to get say, at…

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