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Throw the tapes away - disk backup is here
Posted by Mark on Oct 29, 2008
Data backup can be a nightmare, balancing the demands for instant access against the equally important need for security and reliance. Essentially there are Business Continuity demands that are competing with the requirement to be able to perform a Disaster Recovery.
The same people that patted you on the back because they could get their files back quickly from an online storage system might be the first in the queue to stick a metaphorical knife between your shoulder blades when the disk based backup system is off with the data recovery company, and you don’t have a good old fashioned solid and reliable tape backup.
So are tape backup systems better than disk based virtualized backup systems, do on-line backup systems trump all others? What is best?
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More data lost
Posted by Mark on Oct 10, 2008
This time we hear that a contractor has lost a portable hard drive containing 1.5 million records of military personnel, and that it was not encrypted.
Presumably, with the economic crisis being a “good time to bury bad news”, not a lot will happen. Will we ever get the answer to the one rather simple question about what happened?
What on earth was anyone doing copying 1.5 million service records on to a portable hard disk?
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“Greater love hath no man…”
Posted by Mark on Oct 10, 2008
We hear that the cabinet official who left top-secret documents lying on a train is to be charged under the Official Secrets act.
Does this mean that data security is now being taken seriously?
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Why, oh why, oh why, oh why …
Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008
Another day another data has been lost on a USB stick/laptop/CD *(delete as applicable) story. What is going on? Is this an inevitable result of technology moving forwards?
I think not, rather it is a sign of systems that are out of control with no responsibility being taken for the consequences of incompetence.
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