by Dean | Jan 11, 2015 | Backup, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, Restore
I figured that if I keep talking about backups on this website I had better have a pretty good setup in place at home. This isn’t something that I took lightly either, it needed to be flawless, automatic, easy and reliable. So I considered all of my options from...
by Dean | Jan 15, 2014 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I know that this title sounds a little nasty, or broad. It was originally going to be called Sabotage, but after some thought I realised that this disaster may not be intentional. It may be ignorance, or a series of mistakes, laziness or sabotage plain and simple. I...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I think it is safe to say that server outages are the most common real world disaster. Just thinking about these issues I can think of a number of server issues recently that would fall into this category for example. Server with single power supply had a failed power...
by Dean | Oct 30, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Disaster recovery in IT is always one of those last minute things that never really gets enough attention. That is until it is to late and you are in the middle of a disaster. So why is this the case? Why do we constantly ignore the very real threat that...
