Pumping data
The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…
Tag: Recovery
Holiday Wrap-Up
The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…
Why I work in backups
I’m not a storage geek – storage to me is a means to an end, almost irrelevant to the final…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset
Normally you don’t want to be in this position, but sometimes you’ll strike a situation where the only possible location…
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…
Snapshots and Backups
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at 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….
Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time
I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…
The A-Z of Backup and Recovery
I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…