First, backup everything

Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…

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No Zero Error Policy? No backup system

In the past I’ve talked about the importance of having zero error policies. In “What is a zero error policy?“,…

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37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”

The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…

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Deleting with Reckless Abaddon

This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…

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Why I work in backups

I’m not a storage geek – storage to me is a means to an end, almost irrelevant to the final…

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The importance of full backups

Having recently encountered a situation where a NetWorker client on a customer site repeatedly failed its full backup, I wanted…

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The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

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The scandalous truth about Clouds

Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…

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Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure?

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, “Harry…

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Sidekick is dead – lessons in data loss

The net has been rife with reports of an extreme data loss event occurring at Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile for the Sidekick service…

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