Charting vendor blogging contribution
Most vendors these days have one or more official or unofficial bloggers. In the storage industry, this is no different….
How much aren’t you backing up?
Do you have a clear picture of everything that you’re not backing up? For many sites, the answer is not as…
Larry Ellison vs The Cloud
This article came out on the 26th of September (US time), but since that was my birthday (27th, AU time),…
Hearing hype? Do a TNB test
Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…
Obligations were popular in September
Looking back over September, the most read/visited article was “The 7 Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators“. The goal of the…
Using NetWorker for Live Search
There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list regarding a situation whereby a company was skipping certain media…
Is a “copy” a “backup”?
There’s been of discussions on various storage blogs both previously, and again now on whether a copy (e.g., a tarball,…
Client side compression and saveset sizes
While it turned out to be unrelated, a recent customer question made me think back to the impact of client…
LTO-5 Update
Despite recent claims that LTO-5 is at risk of being a dead format due to Imation being the first vendor…
Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units
On Linu, filesystems typically have two settings regarding getting complete checks on boot. These are: Maximum number of mounts before…