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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One of the most valuable resources your company has it probably not being backed up properly – if at all. Like a lot of cloud services, the ability of salesforce customers to recover from big...
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...
In my continuing series of challenges with backup with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), I thought I’d look at snapshots, and the unique problem they present. They may be even more...
I’m doubling down on my opinion that the GDPR is not going to be able to force companies to “forget” people in their backups – especially personal data found inside an RDBMS or...
I’m still just thinking out loud here. Again… not an attorney. I have read the GDPR and done some analysis of it, primarily around the right to be forgotten (RTBF) and how it pertains...