ILP policies vs Backup Policies

This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…

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Monitoring vs Troubleshooting

How much time do your staff take to monitor backups? The answer should be: very little. Not because they don’t…

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Rage against the ravine

What’s the ravine? When we talk about data flow rates into a backup environment, it’s easy to focus on the…

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Training – it’s an uphill battle

To be perfectly blunt, staff training in backup and recovery products is somewhat of an uphill battle. There’s a commonly…

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Every day is world recovery day

World backup day was established last year as a means of trying to encourage everyone to focus on backups. Personally…

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Stop

The last 6 weeks my life has seemingly constantly been about interruptions. The house we’re renting has just been sold,…

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10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes

When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…

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Decommissioning backup environments

Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…

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Differentiating Differentials

Pretty much everyone understands full and incremental backups in NetWorker. A full backup is a backup of everything, and an…

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The designing of backup environments

The cockatrice was a legendary beast that was a two-legged dragon, with the head of a rooster that could, amongst…

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