I’m reversing a long-standing position of mine, and people who know me know I don’t do that sort of thing very often. (My wife would tell you I never do.) Typical backup software installs an agent on each system to be protected. Agentless backup gets the job done without installing agents, choosing instead to log…
As I started working on making sure all my information was up to date on all the dedupe vendors, I thought about you! What have you always wanted to ask the dedupe vendors? Click read more to see what I’m talking about. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The…
I occasionally hear TSM customers and sales reps tell me that TSM’s tape format is so proprietary that even a TSM server can’t read it if it doesn’t have the database for it. In other words, some people believe that TSM tapes don’t need to be encrypted because if you someone got ahold of them,…
Occasionally people ask me if those who have regulations requiring the immutability and non-repudiation of certain types of data should be concerned about data deduplication. I’ve also seen a few blog entries and articles like this one asking the same question. Does dedupe change the data? Can you use deduped storage if you have immutability…
With the release of NetBackup 6.5.2, Symantec has created a new watershed event: they have released (to my knowledge) the first mainstream backup features that require disk to use them. Click Read More to learn more. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now…
I wrote in an earlier post that Symantec had taken away LIST capabilities from their FTP server. It appears they have put this capability back. 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…
Symantec turned off LIST access to their FTP server, forcing customer to go through their website to get patches, documentation, etc. Click Read More to see what I think of that. 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,…
I received an email today telling me about a whitepaper sponsored by the LTO group and written by The Clipper Group. I'm used to seeing such whitepapers, and used to seeing them state things in such a way that makes the point the sponsor of the paper is trying to make. I've even written a…
This has nothing to do with backups, but I just finished watching the first episode of Carrier on PBS and I'm feeling proud… Click Read More to find out why. 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…
I keep running into a particular problem at customers and I’m curious if any backup software products have addressed it. Do any backup products load-balance their use of tape drives across multiple Fibre Channel ports? Click Read more to see more details. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The…