Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…
Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…
In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…
In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…
Within backup there are typically two tape rotation policies. One policy applies to short term backups, and the other to…
The backup world is, to use a quaint colloquialism, “arse about face“. So much of the talk in the backup…
We are approaching the point where it would be conceivable for someone to build a PB disk system in their…
Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…
In the past I’ve talked about the importance of having zero error policies. In “What is a zero error policy?“,…
One of the stories I sometimes hear from companies is that some technology X doesn’t work in their environment because…