NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs
Recently when I made an exasperated posting about lengthy ext3 check times and looking forward to btrfs, Siobhán Ellis pointed…
Tag: ADV_FILE
When will tape die?
As you may have noticed, I have a great deal of disrespect for “tape is dead” stories. To be blunt,…
Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices
Introduction When choosing to deploy backup to disk by using adv_file devices (instead of say, VTLs), there are some design…
Should you use NAS for disk backup?
Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…
Impact of high speed tape on backup
Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…