The broken state of archive in backup
Let’s say you have a front-end estate of 500 TB of data that you’re protecting. And let’s also say that…
Tag: archive
Assorted Musings (Episode 3)
The Parable of the Languages I was reminded this week of an Internet classic from the early 00s by Shelley…
Unmanaged Data Hoarding is Deadly to your Business
I’ve seen a lot of talk lately of data hoarding. Data can bring us new insights, new business opportunities, and…
Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM
Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…
Basics: Planning A Recovery Service
Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…
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…
Deleting with Reckless Abaddon
This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…
Sisyphus, the Storage King
This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“,…
An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive
This is an adjunct post to the current series, “Data lifecycle management“, and is intended to provide a little more…
The importance of being archived (and deleted)
This is part 2 in the series, “Data Lifecycle Management“. Penny-wise data lifecycle management refers to a situation where companies…