I’ve been following cloud backup vendors (e.g. Mozy, Carbonite, Crashplan) quite closely — and am generally a big fan — but have not spent a lot of time looking at primary cloud vendors. That is, I haven’t spent much time looking at those who would like you to store the only copy of a given…
Scott Waterhouse finalized his thoughts on the whole VMware backup idea on his blog today. One of the things he said that surprised me was that, while you can’t get application-consistent backups in VMware without the use of a host-level agent, you can get crash-consistent backups. My response is simply this: I’m sorry, that is…
I know this isn’t about backups, per se, but I just couldn’t help it. CA is the first major storage vendor I’ve found that is spamming twitter a lot and I want them to stop! So I’ll through this up there and hope for the best. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author,…
If 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
Tweep: a person who uses twitter The other day I posted a blog post about Why I love Twitter. It was very popular and got a lot of people talking about how useful it was to me in that scenario. I’d also argue that the post points out how useful it was to those on…
Hyper-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)…
I’ve just finished my research out what VMware and Hyper-V do (or don’t do) with Windows Volume Shadow Services (VSS) on Windows Guests. This whole thing started from a post by Scott Waterhouse that basically said that there was no way in VMware to get an application-consistent backup without performing a host-based backup. Scott appears…
Just yesterday I was trying to answer a guy on facebook who was asking “why do you use twitter?” He, like a lot of people, “got on it, and didn’t see the point.” Well, let me describe my day and you tell me how I would have accomplished what I did without it. Written by…
Every once in a while someone talks to a CommVault sales rep that seems to want to classify CommVault as either source dedupe or (at the very least) not target dedupe. As one of those who does not like ambiguity (except for the whole near-CDP thing), I will explain why I put them firmly in…
A guy who I refer to as “the other Preston” has just written and published what he refers to as a “mini-manual” for NetWorker and published it on his blog. 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…