Thinking green? Think tape
Many companies are now becoming increasingly aware of the importance of either achieving carbon neutrality, or at least being as…
Category: Backup theory
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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.,…
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…
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…
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?”…