Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…
As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…
Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
A borked LaCie 2TB BigDisk Extreme has reminded me of the role of backup and recovery within disaster recovery itself.…
I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…
If you thought in the storage blogosphere that this week had seen the second coming, you’d be right. Well, the…
There’s been of discussions on various storage blogs both previously, and again now on whether a copy (e.g., a tarball,…
Perhaps one of the most common mistakes that companies can make is to focus on their backup window. You might…