Joomla! site syndication http://www.backupcentral.com Wed, 14 May 2008 22:42:18 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.backupcentral.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.backupcentral.com Joomla! site syndication http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/171/47/ This has nothing to do with backups, but I just finished watching the first episode of Carrier on PBS and I'm feeling proud... Click Read More to find out why. Curtis' Random Thoughts - Mr. Backup Blog Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:21:23 +0100 http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/170/47/ I keep running into a particular problem at customers and I'm curious if any backup software products have addressed it. Do any backup products load-balance their use of tape drives across multiple Fibre Channel ports? Click Read more to see more details. Curtis' Random Thoughts - Mr. Backup Blog Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:01:07 +0100 http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/169/47/ A CNET review of Mozy's online backup software, entitled Everyone likes Mozy, Except Me. makes one or two good points, but IMHO misses the boat and makes no sense to me, a backup person. If you want to know what he said and why I disagree with it, read on. Curtis' Random Thoughts - Mr. Backup Blog Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:49:48 +0100 http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/166/47/ I kept reading stories like this one (http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=145674) that said that Quantum's dedupe is inline. Then I would hear from those in the know that said it was post-process. Different people at Quantum would say different things. Some would say that they run the dedupe at the same time as the ingest, so they considered it inline, although data is hitting disk before it's deduped. They say since it only hits disk for a few seconds, it's really inline. I said, No it's not. So what's the scoop? Read on to see. Curtis' Random Thoughts - Mr. Backup Blog Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:51:57 +0100 http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/168/47/ BackupCentral moved to a new server today. That was fun! Curtis' Random Thoughts - Mr. Backup Blog Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:01:17 +0100