2015 Survey Results
Thank you to everyone who took a few minutes to fill out my 2015 survey. Here are some of the results of the questions you answered. 1. What do you find useful that I write about? There was a almost three way tie with the following topics. Backup,Technology and Mac 2. What do you want me to write more about. Technology News followed by Backup and Mac. 3. Would you be interested in the following…
3-2-1 Backup Rule
A quick reminder on why the 3-2-1 backup rule still makes sense. Regular readers of this blog have heard me talk about the 3-2-1 rule for backup. This rule has been around for decades and it is still as relevant today as it was in the past. Let's review 3 copies of data. You should have 3 copies of your data in case of hardware or data corruption. 2 locations Your data should be stored…
Still Not Backing Up?
There was a news item last week about multiple lightning strikes that affected a Google data centre in Belgium. Because of the multiple hits to the power grids, there was a very small fraction of data that was lost from some virtual machines that were running at that data centers. Although the loss was minor and there was a better way to protect this data, this incident reminds us of the fact that data should…