Is your LTO media compatible with your drives?
or, not all LTO media is created equal. There’s an assumption that because LTO is a standard shared by multiple vendors, then any Ultrium media can be used in any Ultrium drives. (NB: Of course I’m...
View ArticleMistakes you don’t want to make
Many years ago, a company switched from ArcServe to NetWorker. They did so around the time they made their end of year backups, the ones that they intended to keep ‘forever’ for legal requirements....
View ArticleLTO-5 Update
Despite recent claims that LTO-5 is at risk of being a dead format due to Imation being the first vendor to sign on for it, over the last week there’s been stories everywhere about SpectraLogic...
View ArticleThinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small
A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a similar size to physical media they intend to stage/clone out to. For example, if planning to...
View ArticleOh come on, pull the other one
I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on technical websites that discuss data protection, and it’s about time I make my opinion...
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10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes
When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear was “we don’t need to backup”. These days, that sort of attitude is extremely rare...
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