TSM: Don't turn off expiration & reclamation!

FacebookX 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

FacebookXIf you know a good inside/telephone sales representative, then you should have them look at this job posting: http://www.truthinit.com/blogs/truth-in-it-blog/8-internal-sales-position.html 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

FacebookXThere’s a story going around about Apple’s MacOS APFS sparse disk images occasionally losing their mind and throwing documents out the window.  Yet another example of why we do backups. Don’t use APFS images for backups I’ve never liked these disk images that Apple makes –– as a backup method.  This is just another example…

FacebookXAn ArcGIS hack that went undetected for 12 months should be a wake-up call for every IT professional managing infrastructure today. The attack by Chinese threat group Flax Typhoon didn’t just compromise a customer’s environment—it turned their backup strategy into a malware preservation system. Every time they backed up their ArcGIS server, they were saving…

FacebookXNEC HydraStor is the coolest product you’ve never heard of. My interest in this product was renewed last week as I watched a dozen hard-core techies salivate when they heard it described, and almost swoon when they saw it demonstrated. As I said in a previous blog, I spent two and a half days last…

FacebookXDave Raffo announced in Storage Soup that Quantum announced yesterday that they had found a new OEM for their DXi line.  I hope for their sake (and their investors’ sake) that things work out better for them this time. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast….