What don’t you backup?
I think this is a question that the average company wholly, inadequately, fails to understand. You see, when it’s asked, people…
NetWorker Usage Survey for June 2011 Results
With apologies for the delays, I’m pleased to announce that the report following the NetWorker Usage Survey in June/July 2011…
Basics – Jobkill goes interactive
In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations…
7 common problems with deduplication
In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…
Auditing should be done only by the experts
I’ve said it before – auditing should only be done by the experts. I first realised this when a security…
Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning
I’m not a storage person, as I’ve been at pains to highlight in the past. My personal focus is at…
How indispensable is your company?
A wise man once said in a meeting: If you want to see how indispensable you are, stick your finger…
The risk of change
Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…
You’re not the boss of me
Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…
Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix
In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…