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…
Tag: Disaster Recovery
Preparedness is not wastefulness
This post has now moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog, and can be read here. Related posts: How much…
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,…
Setting alarm bells ringing
As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…
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…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
What a day!
This morning we went to the funeral of our best friends’ father. It was, as funerals go, a lovely service…
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…
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….
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…