Rolling your own dedupe

I’m a big fan of lab testing – it’s the only way you can safely work out how to do potentially…

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Data Domain Boost and Daily/Monthly Backups

One question that comes up every now and then concerns having an optimal approach to Data Domain Boost devices in…

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Data protection lessons from a tomato

Data protection lessons from a tomato? Have I gone mad? Bear with me. If you’ve done any ITIL training, the…

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Of accidental architectures

  EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…

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The divisibility of eggs

The caution about keeping all of ones eggs in the one basket is a fairly common one. It’s also a…

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Recovery Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who provided responses into the recovery survey. It proved to be a very interesting insight into some…

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The one core problem with deduplication

[Edit- 2015: I must get around to writing a refutation to the article below. Keeping it for historical purposes, but…

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FUDtasia

I’m in a training course for a disk-only backup product, and in the introductory material, there’s a distinct message: tape…

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Healthy paranoia

Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…

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The problem with VADP

Virtualisation. It’s a fantastic blade to wield through a datacentre. Sweeping and scything, whole racks of equipment are reduced to…

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