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Please use a password manager

Over one billions email address/password combos were recently leaked under the name “Collection #1,” suggesting there may be more. When something like this happens, I just take a deep...

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A parody of How to Save a Life

This was the first time we decided to make our own funny music video to go along with the song.  An early effort, of course.  Please note the Guitar Hero guitars the band is playing, along...

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Bad restore – A Music Video Parody

Fans of my books and websites may not be aware of my music parody hobby, partly because I never put them all in one place.  So I recently uploaded all of them to Youtube, and am going to post them...

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Does Bit Error Rate Matter?

Magnetic devices make mistakes; the only question is how many mistakes will they make. I was presenting a slide a while ago that listed the Bit Error Rates (BERs) for various magnetic media, and...

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Why doesn’t everyone do source dedupe?

It seems to me that source dedupe is the most efficient way to backup data, so why is it that very few products do it? This is what I found myself thinking about today. Source dedupe is the way to go...

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Do you need to backup Office365?

The answer is absolutely yes, and anyone who thinks you don’t need to do so should not be put in charge of your data. Also, anyone who thinks I’m saying this just because I work for a...

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Should circumstances change the RTO & RPO?

Disaster recovery experts do not agree whether you should have one-and-only-one recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) for each application, or two of them.  What am I...

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The GDPR is unclear about backups

No one knows for sure whether backups are going to be included in the right to be forgotten (RTBF). Even the GDPR ICO isn’t being entirely clear about it yet. But that hasn’t stopped...

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