Decommissioning backup environments
Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…
Category: Architecture
The designing of backup environments
The cockatrice was a legendary beast that was a two-legged dragon, with the head of a rooster that could, amongst…
Check in – New Years Resolutions
In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…
Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise
Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification…
Why backup theory is important
Obviously the NetWorker Blog gets a lot of referrals from search engines via people looking specifically for help on particular…
The top ten for 2011
It’s that time of the year where I sit back for a moment and look at what articles have attracted…
Trial podcast
For some time I’ve been debating whether to generate podcasts for the NetWorker blog. Rather than continue to vacillate, I’ve…
Ongoing trends with tape
When I first started in backup and recovery, my primary backup medium was DDS-1 tapes, distributed across probably 15 servers…
Where RIM went wrong
(Quick note: I posted this on my personal blog – insufficient coffees thus far this morning, and decided to repost…
If you wouldn’t drink it, don’t cook with it…
This blog article has been moved across to the sister site, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery. Read it here. Related…