Multi-Schedule Policies

PowerProtect Data Manager’s policy engine is designed to be an all-in-one method to planning your data protection copies. Let’s see…

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Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too

I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…

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Basics: Planning A Recovery Service

Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…

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Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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The divisibility of eggs

The caution about keeping all of ones eggs in the one basket is a fairly common one. It’s also a…

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ILP policies vs Backup Policies

This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…

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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…

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Snapshots and Backups

Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…

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Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again

In my opinion (and after all, this is my blog), there’s a fundamental misconception in the storage industry that backup…

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