Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…
Looking back over September, the most read/visited article was “The 7 Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators“. The goal of the…
There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list regarding a situation whereby a company was skipping certain media…
There’s been of discussions on various storage blogs both previously, and again now on whether a copy (e.g., a tarball,…
While it turned out to be unrelated, a recent customer question made me think back to the impact of client…
Despite recent claims that LTO-5 is at risk of being a dead format due to Imation being the first vendor…
On Linu, filesystems typically have two settings regarding getting complete checks on boot. These are: Maximum number of mounts before…
On Wednesday, a large part of NSW was engulfed in a significant dust storm event. Having grown up in the…
In environments with satellite offices, a common “backup” technique described in a lot of situations is what I’d generically call…
Something I’ve seen a few people complain about – and indeed that I’ve also complained about in the past, is…