The risk of change

Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…

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You’re not the boss of me

Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…

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Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix

In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…

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This is wrong

In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…

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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…

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There is no such thing as a backup failure

The backup world is, to use a quaint colloquialism, “arse about face“. So much of the talk in the backup…

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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…

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First, backup everything

Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…

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No Zero Error Policy? No backup system

In the past I’ve talked about the importance of having zero error policies. In “What is a zero error policy?“,…

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Technology is rarely the issue

One of the stories I sometimes hear from companies is that some technology X doesn’t work in their environment because…

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