JBOB – Just a Bunch of Batteries As you can see from the photo I used for this blog, I still use Rayovac batteries in my devices. This happens to be my thoroughly amazing Zoom H6 Handy Recorder, but I also use them in my guitars (professional musician on the side), some of my music…
Category: Backup
What Does Your Data Weigh?
What do you think? Does data have weight? How much does your data weigh? Or should we never ask questions about weight? He ain’t heavy, he’s my data Data can carry a lot of weight, it can be used to show how well your company is doing, it can be used to measure your own…
Disruption in the Force
As we approach all hallows eve, I get an early morning message from someone that tells me that “Peter McKay left Veeam”. I was shocked by this news after the company had just reported its 41st consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. I thought for sure this was a “trick”, but my source said it was…
Boots & Technology – CommvaultGO Review
When I heard Commvault had selected Nashville for its annual user conference, CommvaultGO, I was a little disappointed that I wasn’t attending. I had some personal plans in Nashville that had to do with my other passion, music, but sadly I was leaving on the same day it was starting, Tuesday. One way or another, I got an email from…
#! /usr/bin/ksh – Backup Admin Life: Testing
In a blog, far far away… In my previous post on Automation in this series I’m calling “Backup Admin Life”, I talked about what we used to do with scripting to “get $#!+” done and how the more complex the systems got the more important it was to make sure things were automated and easy…
#! /usr/bin/ksh – Backup Admin Life: Automation
If you read that title, ‘Pound sign, exclamation point, forward slash U-S-R, forward slash, B-I-N, forward slash, K-S-H’, then you may not get the nuances of my blog post, or forget the nuances, you may not “get it” at all. No offense. However, if you read the title, “pound-bang user-bin-korn shell” or something very similar,…
Data Protection OF a Service
Today I read Jason Buffington’s blog entitled, “How do you backup SaaS? I’d like to know” and was intrigued to see what response he has received from this very inquisitive blog post. Much to my chagrin, none were publicly posted. This, I thought was a great blog entry asking the very same questions I asked…
First business trip and serious laptop anxiety of the new year
Hard to believe, by this time last year I had already been to Europe and back and was getting ready to go to Hawaii to speak at a customer event and ride Harleys around the island with a customer or two. To tell you the truth, it has been nice not seeing an airport until…
Backup to the Future!!
Old times forgotten I’ve been around backup and recovery for a lot of years. Started as a night time backup operator slinging 288MB (yes megabyte) disk packs, mounting 9-track reel to reel tape (don’t forget to check if it is write-protected) and initiating a copy (backup) on a WANG VS7310 way back in late ’80s….