Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?

My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…

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Sometimes it’s not my problem

I frequently work in support – I help a plethora of companies that have NetWorker issues, and I enjoy doing…

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Oh come on, pull the other one

I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…

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Snapshots and Backups, Part 2

Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…

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Snapshots and Backups

Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…

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iPad = iManage

You’d practically have to be Amish in order to not know that Apple today finally released their much anticipated tablet.…

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Do you know your end of support dates?

I’ll presume for the moment that you’re aware of your actual end of support contract period. (Though, I’ll admit a…

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Nybbles for the end of the week

Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? Here’s a few things I’ve found fascinating…

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The law of least astonishment and backups

A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…

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All this DeDupe is making me thirsty!

In a previous article, I discussed how deduplication is one of those technologies that still straddles the gap between bleeding…

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