Know your environment
Whenever I conduct training, I tell a story about a disaster recovery test that I ran for a customer in…
Category: Backup theory
Microsoft, start your copiers
For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…
Error lifecycle management
In previous articles I’ve discussed the need for zero error policies. This was covered first in What is a Zero…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
10 reasons why tape is still important (part 2)
In the previous article, I covered the first five of ten reasons why tape is still important. Now, let’s consider…
10 reasons why tape is still important (part 1)
Various companies will spin you their “tape is dead” story, and I’m the first to admit that the use pattern…
There is no magic bullet
The always astute Martin Glassborow has an article on his blog titled “This Changes Everything … Honest!” In it, Martin…
It’s a bit like fishy custard
In the debut episode of Doctor Who for Matt Smith (“The Eleventh Hour”), the Doctor, having only just regenerated is…
What a day!
This morning we went to the funeral of our best friends’ father. It was, as funerals go, a lovely service…
Book Drive
Every now and then I like to remind people of my book, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance…