There’s a story going around about Apple’s MacOS APFS sparse disk images occasionally losing their mind and throwing documents out the window. Yet another example of why we do backups...
Don’t get your backup advice from security people. That’s how I felt reading what started out as a really good article about protecting your systems from ransomware. It was all great...
The man in the van can lose your tapes. Any questions? It’s the man, not the mountain Yes, Iron Mountain has had many very public incidents of losing tapes. You can do a google search for Iron...
No one likes hardware; they only like what they can do with it. And I say this as a geek who has built plenty of PCs in my house, including a Hackintosh. What kind of sick weirdo builds their own...
Instant recovery is the modern-day equivalent of what we used to call a hot site, as it allows you to recover immediately after some type of incident. I have personally advocated for this concept, as...
You don’t negotiate with terrorists, and you don’t pay ransom unless you have no other choice. Even then, you should try every available avenue before you decide to pay money to the...
Your backup server might be the biggest vulnerability in your datacenter, as I already discussed in my previous blog post. Which means that you should have patched it first, but I’m betting...
Did you know there have been 7870 public data breaches since 2005? Your company’s data is under attack. Like terrorism, the attackers only have to be successful once. You have to be successful...
On my LinkedIn profile, I posted a link to my last article, Why good dedupe is important — and hard to do. I got some pretty good feedback on it, but one comment from my buddy Chris M. Evens...
Good dedupe creates real savings in disk and bandwidth requirements. It also makes the impossible possible by replicating even full backups offsite. Dedupe is behind many advancements in backup and...