Barcode categories create issues
Some sites get quite particular about their volume barcodes when it comes to physical media. This means you’ll see barcodes…
Category: Backup theory
The perils of an Icarus support contract
Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…
Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?
My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…
Of Unicorns and Horses
Is your backup system a unicorn, or is it a horse? If you’re thinking I’m off my rocker asking such…
Sometimes it’s not my problem
I frequently work in support – I help a plethora of companies that have NetWorker issues, and I enjoy doing…
Backup is Insurance
As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…
Oh come on, pull the other one
I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…
Snapshots and Backups, Part 2
Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…
Snapshots and Backups
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
All your data are belong to us
There’s a simple rule to remember when it comes to removable media handling (both within backups, and generally within IT)…