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