Long-term NetWorker administrators may remember that NetWorker used to have a somewhat odd mechanism of dealing with renamed directories. Nowadays the default option…
The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…
Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…
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Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…
I’d like to suggest that companies be prepared to make (and keep!) 7 new years resolutions when it comes to…
When I discuss backup and recovery success metrics with customers, the question that keeps coming up is “what are desirable…
I think this is a question that the average company wholly, inadequately, fails to understand. You see, when it’s asked, people…
Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…
Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…