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…

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Preparedness is not wastefulness

This post has now moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog, and can be read here. Related posts: What a…

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Psst! Want to touch my backup server?

Last month, I posted a survey with the following questions: What is your backup server (currently)? Physical server Virtual server,…

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Setting alarm bells ringing

As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…

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Is bare metal recovery dead?

It used to be 10 years ago that you couldn’t do anything in the backup space without having an answer…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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What a day!

This morning we went to the funeral of our best friends’ father. It was, as funerals go, a lovely service…

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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…

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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.…

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How much aren’t you backing up?

Do you have a clear picture of everything that you’re not backing up? For many sites, the answer is not as…

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