A couple of weeks ago I got into a twight (twitter fight) with Storagezilla over whether or not the term near-CDP should be allowed to exist. He opened the dialogue with this parting shot mini-blog post, then went on to refer to near-CDP as non-CDP in this longer blog post. My side is that, while…
My father, who is what I would call a “red-dog Republican” (look it up), sent me this joke. Normally I roll my eyes at much of the political stuff that he sends my way. (I get all his right-wing stuff and I’m also on Moveon.org’s mailing list, so I get it from both sides.) But…
I’ve learned a little about Apple’s Time Machine today and as a result I am much less impressed than I was. In fact, I’m wondering if I should use it at all. 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…
I am in the middle of a migration from a Drobo to a DroboPro. I love the way these things work. I love how easy they make it to protect your data. It’s so easy their CEO’s grandmother could use it. (I learned that they actually referred to Geoff Barral’s grandmother during initial design. They…
Now that I’m trying to use my home-built NAS solution to store things like video imported from a video camera via Firewire, I needed much more performance than I was getting, as I was dropping frames during import. NOT GOOD. I sought counsel via Twitter, Facebook and email, and I got all kinds of conflicting…
As a person who has spent a good portion of the last couple of years talking about disk backups, one might think that I’ve given up on tape. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I’m encouraged by my friends over at Spectralogic that just released the industry’s largest tape library. Written by…
Dedupe to tape is definitely crazy. But is it crazy good or crazy bad? I spent two days in (lovely?) Oceanport, New Jersey surrounded by a bunch of CommVault Kool-Aid drinking, Frank Slootman hated, but seriously technical people that knew their product very well. Over those two days, I had every question I had about…
Email archiving software vendor ZL (who, by the way, I never heard of until this lawsuit) is suing Gartner for saying that they’re a “niche player.” According to the lawsuit they bring this action “in its individual capacity and on behalf of the general public,” as Gartners actions have harmed “the creative forces of American…
This weekend I really fell in love with my Drobo, so I thought I’d tell you about it. If you’re not familiar with what makes them so cool, read on. I think you’ll be impressed, too. Disclaimer: My Drobo was a gift from the folks at Drobo, but I still think it’s one of the…
There have been some interesting options that have recently presented themselves for using deduplicated, replicated backups on a regular basis. If you’re not familiar with the challenges of using these backups without some help, I’ll explain those first, and then go into the solutions to these problems that are showing up. Update: I’m talking about…