Technology is not the solution
Earlier in the year, I wrote a post, “Technology is rarely the issue“. In that post, I said: As techos…
Category: Architecture
Adherents to the Repeated Meme
How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…
Managing tape backup media lifecycles
Within backup there are typically two tape rotation policies. One policy applies to short term backups, and the other to…
Book Drive
We’ve reached the time where I suggest that if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you would likely find…
Well, it performs – or performance?
We are approaching the point where it would be conceivable for someone to build a PB disk system in their…
First, backup everything
Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…
Psst! Want to touch my backup server?
Last month, I posted a survey with the following questions: What is your backup server (currently)? Physical server Virtual server,…
The 7 Challenges of Data Protection
It struck me recently while working on a report that there’s 7 distinct challenges in data protection, and that we…
The virtue of persistence
I have to say, I’m really liking NetWorker’s ability to work with persistent binding on tape libraries now. If you’re…
Survey – Virtual Backup Servers
I have to admit, I have great personal reservations towards virtualising backup servers. There’s a simple, fundamental reason for this:…