One effective way to help small business clients is to perform a backup assessment.  Here are a few questions and technician guidelines to help you with the process. Interview the company stakeholders.  Ask the following questions What are you doing for backup now? What software are you using? What hardware are you using? How do…

A Non Profit representative writes:  “We haven’t backed up since 2009. Backups are done using DVDs and hence, if the volumes are huge, we will need several dvds to back up the materials.  Also if the drives run out of space, which they are at the verge, we will have to add more drives, which…

With the release in Oct 2012 of a 4 bay Network Attached RAIDFrame Plus, another nail will be put in the coffin of tape.  RAIDFrames use the largest removable hard drive on the market called a RAIDPac.   When we started the website tapesucks.com back in 2004 we actually thought tape would die more quickly. According…

With security concerns of our data ever more important, the question of securely erasing data from hard drives that are no longer being used occasionally comes up. This topic is also known as multiple pass wiping of hard drives.  This is a separate question from whether to use whole disk encryption for your backups, or…

We spend a lot of time studying backup to removable disk.  Would it surprise you to learn that 3.5 inch hard drives use less power than 2.5 for backup on a per Gigabyte stored basis? 3.5″ disks have around twice the surface area of 2.5″ disks.  They also typically have 1.5 to 2 times as many…