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FacebookXIn a surprise reverse of their longstanding “inline is the ONLY way to go and anyone that does post processing is stupid” position, Data Domain today announced that Post Process is A-OK with them.  Or at least that’s how I’m reading the acquisition of Data Domain for $1.5B by NetApp.  Click Read More to see…

FacebookXTape is still hot, cloud is getting hotter, but companies are still stagnated when it comes to capital purchases, according to a recent survey of 156 IT professionals during the Backup Central Live! seminar series. I purchased an audience response system from Option Technologies for our Backup Central Live! seminar series.  (We will be in…

FacebookXLast month I wrote a blog post about how I thought that Hyper-V was ahead of VMware in the backup race.  If you haven’t read, you should read it before reading this follow-up.  Before you read that post, however, you should probably know about what’s in this postthat explains Windows VSS and why you should…

FacebookXI learned a lot from The Tiger King, currently the most popular show on Netflix.  And like WestWorld, I saw a few lessons about backup and disaster recovery that I thought I’d share with you. Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the entire docuseries The Tiger King, stop reading this right now, as it contains…

FacebookXI went to Mac World today and there were two products that left me very impressed.  One of them was Dolly Drive.  They’re an app that makes their cloud storage look like a valid Time Machine drive.  You use time Machine just as you always have, but your data is securely copied up to the…

FacebookXIf 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…