Staging Systems vs Backup Systems
Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…
Category: Backup theory
Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?
“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…
Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM
Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…
Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best
I want to have a bit of a chat in this post about cheap. In particular, I want to get two…
The House That No-One Built
And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt On the…
Protecting your thoughts
There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…
Sandpits in enterprise data protection
“Practice makes perfect” is not just a common saying, it says in three short words how humans learn to do things….
Racing Backups
On your marks I’m not all that interested in sport. I grew up in a sports-mad family and spent a…
Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too
I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…
2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report
Introduction The NetWorker Usage Survey for 2017 ran from December 1, 2017 through to January 31, 2018. Regretfully, participation rates…