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…
Category: General thoughts
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…
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…
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…
Snapshots and Backups
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
iPad = iManage
You’d practically have to be Amish in order to not know that Apple today finally released their much anticipated tablet….
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…
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…
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…
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…