Sidekick is dead – lessons in data loss

The net has been rife with reports of an extreme data loss event occurring at Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile for the Sidekick service…

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Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing

In many environments with storage nodes, a common requirement is to share backup devices between the server and/or storage nodes…

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Uptime is an inappropriate metric

I’m going to start with a statement that may make some people angry. Some might suggest that I’m just goading…

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A cautionary tale about changing pools

Sometimes I feel like a NetWorker old-timer. (When I don’t feel like a NetWorker old-timer, it doesn’t change the fact…

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NetWorker Resource Relationships

With NetWorker having many components that can link together in a variety of ways, it’s not always easy (particularly for…

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Charting vendor blogging contribution

Most vendors these days have one or more official or unofficial bloggers. In the storage industry, this is no different.…

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How much aren’t you backing up?

Do you have a clear picture of everything that you’re not backing up? For many sites, the answer is not as…

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Larry Ellison vs The Cloud

This article came out on the 26th of September (US time), but since that was my birthday (27th, AU time),…

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Hearing hype? Do a TNB test

Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…

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Obligations were popular in September

Looking back over September, the most read/visited article was “The 7 Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators“. The goal of the…

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