A New Backup Construct - 3DR
Here's my latest in CW - an outline of the way we should be doing data protection. Once you read it, let me know if you think it reasonable (as I do) that archiving become a parallel process in this construct. It blows my mind that people backup archives - in the same vein as their production data. One of the biggest values archiving offers is eliminating that data from the backup process - since it's already backed up, and doesn't change. People do goofy things sometimes. That's one of them, if you ask me.
Heidi and I will be working on getting out a more comprehensive piece shortly.
I read your "inside-back" column in the June issue of Storage magazine - you spoke of 3DR. I've been hearing "de-dupe" thrown around a bit lately and I am wondering if this is the same as "content optimization" touted by folks like Data Domain?
Posted by: John | June 20, 2006 at 04:48 PM