Recovery survey

We talk a lot about backups, but we all know that backups are done for one reason – to recover…

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NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices

As mentioned in my main NetWorker 8 introduction article, one of the biggest architectural enhancements in NetWorker v8 is a…

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The one core problem with deduplication

[Edit- 2015: I must get around to writing a refutation to the article below. Keeping it for historical purposes, but…

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Healthy paranoia

Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…

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Decommissioning backup environments

Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…

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7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies

I’d like to suggest that companies be prepared to make (and keep!) 7 new years resolutions when it comes to…

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Metrics you can depend on

When I discuss backup and recovery success metrics with customers, the question that keeps coming up is “what are desirable…

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There is no such thing as a backup failure

The backup world is, to use a quaint colloquialism, “arse about face“. So much of the talk in the backup…

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First, backup everything

Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…

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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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