Mr. Backup Blog

I have just returned from an 18-day part-work, part-vacation trip to wonderful Australia.  That’s why you didn’t seen any entries in that time!  Click Read More to see more. 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…

I just finished the St. Louis and San Antonio dedupe schools, and had a great time.  I actually ate at 3, count them, THREE restaurants covered on The Food Channel’s “Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.”  Wanna hear what I thought of them?  Click Read More. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host…

IBM announced TSM 6.1 a few days ago, and it’s supposed to be GA in March.  The two features of DB2 and dedupe have been long awaited.  What do I think about them?  Click Read More to see more. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast….

If you’re not a UNIX geek, you won’t care, but a milestone just happened, where UNIX time was 1234567890.  You could have counted down with me, but it’s over now.  If you have no idea what I’m talking about, click Read More to be enlightened. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and…

I recently had my first (and probably my last) experience with godaddy services.  The interaction left me with a taste nasty enough that I thought I’d blog 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 S2|DATA, which helps…

Someone defaced my site Friday evening and I had a really fun weekend (not).  Click Read More for the story. 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

I don’t care what your political affiliation is.  It’s a proud day to be an American.  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

Bacula Systems is now the commercial arm for the popular open-source backup product Bacula.  “It roams the datacenter at night and sucks the vital essence from your computers.”  I’m not making that up.  This is the second open-source backup product to do such, with Zmanda preceding them.  Click Read More to see what I think…

I’ve now seen some vendors saying things to the effect that “once you get 10:1, dedupe ratio doesn’t matter.”  They state that 10:1 saves 90% of disk, and 20:1 saves 95% of disk, so the difference is only 5% — so why is everyone so concerned about dedupe ratio?  To this 90%/95% comment I say,…