Thinking green? Think tape

Many companies are now becoming increasingly aware of the importance of either achieving carbon neutrality, or at least being as…

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In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems

Frequent visitors to this blog will be well aware of the various comments I’ve made about the impact of filesystems…

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HSM implications for backup

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…

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Spacing out full backups

Bigger, faster, better. That’s one of the common catch-phrases of backup architecture. Backup window too small? Buy faster, and more…

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Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices

Introduction When choosing to deploy backup to disk by using adv_file devices (instead of say, VTLs), there are some design…

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Architectural failings of monolithic personal mail databases

This article might be summarised as: I wish Microsoft would pull their heads in and design better email client software.…

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Should you use NAS for disk backup?

Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…

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Impact of high speed tape on backup

Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…

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Backups are not about being miserly

Recently Australia’s largest grocery chain followed some of the other chains and started offering unit pricing on their products. For…

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Merits of Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)

Or, “In 5 years time will we reflect on VTLs as an example of a bad direction in data protection?”…

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