Why RAID is Not a Backup
Last update: July 05, 2021 Today I would like to discuss the topic of RAID – more specifically backup issues. In the blog post title, I proposed a daring thesis ...
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Hardware Compression in a Backup With Tape Drives
Last update: July 02, 2021 Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes data compression available to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases, ...
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D2D2T: a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategy
A look at the modern data storage industry can make your head spin. From a variety of hard drives, efficient disk arrays, magnetic tapes, conventional or emulated tape libraries to ...
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Criteria for selecting files when performing full, incremental and differential backup
A fundamental function of backup and restore software is the ability to copy data from one place to another. No matter if the backup data are stored on volumes, files, ...
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Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication
Among many technologies that increase data storage protection, the term ‘replication’ is used very frequently. Replication, as a way of creating an exact data copy between the source storage location ...
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