Who is your backup admin?
Who manages the backups at your site? I.e., who has primary duties for administering and maintaining the backup system? I’m…
Tag: Backup
Microsoft, start your copiers
For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?
My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…
Backup is Insurance
As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…
Snapshots and Backups, Part 2
Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…
Snapshots and Backups
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery
A borked LaCie 2TB BigDisk Extreme has reminded me of the role of backup and recovery within disaster recovery itself….
The A-Z of Backup and Recovery
I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…
Nybbles
If you thought in the storage blogosphere that this week had seen the second coming, you’d be right. Well, the…