The case of Dell and the Interdicted Disks

Covered in several places last week, including The Standalone Sysadmin, was the story about Dell updating their RAID firmware/systems on…

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What should your toolkit look like?

There should be more software installed on your NetWorker server than just the operating system and NetWorker. In order to…

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Aside – The Great Shrinking Disk Drive

Over at Xiotech’s blog, there’s an interesting piece about the evolution of 2.5″ drives in enterprise storage titled The Great…

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A new vendor battle

We’re used to seeing EMC and NetApp punch it out in the blogosphere and tweetverse, with the occasional pause from…

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Sometimes it’s not my problem

I frequently work in support – I help a plethora of companies that have NetWorker issues, and I enjoy doing…

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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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