You’re not the boss of me
Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…
Tag: Backup
First, backup everything
Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…
Setting alarm bells ringing
As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…
Pumping data
The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…
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…
A basic data lifecycle
I’m going to run a few posts about overall data management, and central to the notion of data management is…
Holiday Wrap-Up
The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…