Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape

Any regular reader knows that I don’t for a minute believe that tape is dead. However, it is time to…

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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…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small

A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a…

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November’s top article

November saw the article, “Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)” remain the top read story for another…

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EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup

With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…

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Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…

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NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux

Some time ago, I posted a blog entry titled Carry a Jukebox with you, if you’re using Linux, which referred…

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Merits of target based deduplication

It goes without a doubt that we have to get smarter about storage. While I’m probably somewhat excessive in my…

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Most popular in August

The most visited post in August was again, Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux). I think part…

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