The lazy admin
Are you an industriously busy backup administrator, or are you lazy? When I started in IT in 1996, it wasn’t…
Tag: Policies
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…
The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery
You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…
Zero Error Policy Management
This article has now moved to Enterprise Systems Backup, and can be read here. Related posts: What is a zero…
Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes
Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…
Offsite your bootstrap reports
I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…
Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk
When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…
NetWorker and the Y2038 Problem
Having spent what seemed like much of 1999 coordinating the system administration efforts of a major Y2K project for an…