Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O'Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data
There's now been over 15 reviews of my new book, Backup & Recovery (Buy It),…
FacebookXHyper-V offers fully-supported, application-aware, transactionally-consistent backups of any applications that have a VSS writer. These include Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint, and others. There is no need in Hyper-V to put an agent in any VM. Your applications will get properly backed up and they will know they’ve been backed up (thus clearing their logs)…
FacebookX[This story originally happened in 2007, but I just learned about it, so I blogged about it. Then I learned that it was a four-year-old story. Everything here still applies, even if the actual story is old. But I did re-edit the story and change it’s title because the original wording seems a bit…
FacebookXI'm sitting here in my room at the London Heathrow Hilton awaiting a flight back to the US after spending two weeks in London and surrounding cities. (I was visiting GlassHouse's UK offices and clients, and giving the first London Backup School.) One night that I will never forget was being only a few blocks from one of…
FacebookXRobin of StorageMojo replied to my blog entry about preferring the term de-duplication over compression. I started replying in the comments, and decided to make a whole other blog entry about it. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at…
FacebookXChris Mellor wrote an article a few months ago that basically predicted the death of tape by 2014. The basis of the article and the prediction was an executive summary of a market analysis report from the Santa Clara Consulting Group, (SCCG), “the leading source of market information relating to the removable data storage industry…
FacebookXToday ransomware attacks are a growing threat to organizations of all sizes. One critical aspect often overlooked is the vulnerability of backup systems. This blog post will explore how to protect backups from ransomware, ensuring your last line of defense remains intact. This blog post summarizes the main points of my latest podcast episode. If…