Here’s your chance to actually see me speak from the comfort of your desk. 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
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
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
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
If you’re a NetBackup user, I know you think I’m crazy, but this is what I like: One policy per client and per database instance, and I’m going to do my best to convince you that it’s a good idea. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up…
I keep running into people that want to program their shell/perl scripts so that they source other scripts. Then those scripts call other scripts, and those scripts call other scripts. 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…
NDMP is a great way to get faster backups for your filers by connecting tape drives directly to them. But combining Synthetic Full Backups and NFS/CIFS access to your filers might be a lot better. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the…
As if Microsoft's document formats weren't already bloated enough, you can make them even more bloated by putting them into sharepoint. 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
Both Sun and Symantec have now made patching your OS and application significantly harder than it used to be. Do they not like all us command-line folks, or what? 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…
Up until just a few months ago, it was cheaper to just buy some random cheap disk and back up to it. VTLs were more expensive for two reasons: the existence of de-dupe and the fact that some software vendors are now charging you to back up to regular disk. Written by W. Curtis Preston…