Recovery survey
We talk a lot about backups, but we all know that backups are done for one reason – to recover…
Tag: Recovery
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…
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…
Healthy paranoia
Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…
Decommissioning backup environments
Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…
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…
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…
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…
First, backup everything
Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…
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,…