A basic data lifecycle
I’m going to run a few posts about overall data management, and central to the notion of data management is…
Category: Backup theory
Holiday Wrap-Up
The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…
IT Strategies
The worst mistake we can make in IT is to become so embedded in firefighting or triage activities that we…
Who is your backup admin?
Who manages the backups at your site? I.e., who has primary duties for administering and maintaining the backup system? I’m…
Is bare metal recovery dead?
It used to be 10 years ago that you couldn’t do anything in the backup space without having an answer…
Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging
Backup to disk has well and truly become entrenched as a core backup strategy in most companies. By “backup to…
Using backup and recovery systems to track data growth
There’s a lot of talk about tracking data growth by watching SAN and NAS usage, counting allocated storage by the…
appliances vs Appliances
We all have appliances, right? Teapots and toasters and microwaves and automatic coffee machines, etc. They’re all appliances. So are…
Why I work in backups
I’m not a storage geek – storage to me is a means to an end, almost irrelevant to the final…
The Half-Life of a Backup
Every backup you do has a half-life, which isn’t the retention period of the backup. Now, if you’re new to…