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?”…
Category: General thoughts
Meet your library
For larger sites in particular, we frequently end up in situations where backup or system administrators are sufficiently remote from…
Aside – the three rules of good coffee
I’ll admit, I’m not a barista. Needless to say working in IT and coming from Australia I have a healthy…
SciFi without Asimov’s laws of robotics
I consider myself fundamentally opposed to Asimov’s laws of robotics, for two entirely different reasons. The first, and the most…
Expecting a more complete backup
As I point out in my book, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up in datacentres completely unprotected. That…
EMC helping out Quantum
For a long time I was not a fan of Quantum. As a system administrator in the early to mid…
Is your LTO media compatible with your drives?
or, not all LTO media is created equal. There’s an assumption that because LTO is a standard shared by multiple…
What would you like to see in advanced training?
Over the years when I’ve been delivering various customised training courses, I’ve had many a customer ask “can we have…
Does your backup administrator have a say in change control?
This blog post has moved, and can now be found at the Enterprise Backup Blog, here. Related posts: Going on…
Index backups for recovery
We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able…