Monitoring vs Troubleshooting
How much time do your staff take to monitor backups? The answer should be: very little. Not because they don’t…
Counting the numbers
How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…
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…
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…
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…
Stop
The last 6 weeks my life has seemingly constantly been about interruptions. The house we’re renting has just been sold,…
A brief update
I’ve been pretty quiet of late on the site, and it’s not through a lack of interest. Unfortunately there’s several…
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…
Decommissioning backup environments
Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…
Differentiating Differentials
Pretty much everyone understands full and incremental backups in NetWorker. A full backup is a backup of everything, and an…