Killing me softly? I never liked the song either.
Over at The Backup Blog, Scott Waterhouse offers an alternate perspective on why the announcement by IBM of an in-lab…
Category: Backup theory
Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery
A borked LaCie 2TB BigDisk Extreme has reminded me of the role of backup and recovery within disaster recovery itself….
Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape
Any regular reader knows that I don’t for a minute believe that tape is dead. However, it is time to…
Do you know your end of support dates?
I’ll presume for the moment that you’re aware of your actual end of support contract period. (Though, I’ll admit a…
The importance of full backups
Having recently encountered a situation where a NetWorker client on a customer site repeatedly failed its full backup, I wanted…
The law of least astonishment and backups
A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…
Get off 7.2 and 7.3
On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…
Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time
I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…
The A-Z of Backup and Recovery
I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…
Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small
A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a…