Some sites get quite particular about their volume barcodes when it comes to physical media. This means you’ll see barcodes…
Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…
My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…
Is your backup system a unicorn, or is it a horse? If you’re thinking I’m off my rocker asking such…
I frequently work in support – I help a plethora of companies that have NetWorker issues, and I enjoy doing…
As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…
I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…
Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
There’s a simple rule to remember when it comes to removable media handling (both within backups, and generally within IT)…