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Stupid Licensing Practices
This is a rant so be forewarned … We discovered an “interesting” kink in Backup Exec licensing this week. I will admit that we had not been paying attention to the changes announced first by Symantec and then Veritas so I suppose we were partially asleep at the switch. Nevertheless, the changes are significant and …
Read onBackupExec and Copied Media
We’ve had a reminder this week of some oddities in BackupExec. Our standard backup configuration for customers that use BackupExec is to have BackupExec send its output to a NAS device (generally a QNAP) and then the datastore on the QNAP is dumped out to a USB disk for offsite storage on a regular basis. …
Read onA (Non) Profitable Journey – Part 4
Things continue apace at Swan Lake. I’ve been fooling around with various things and I’m slowly rolling in the changes that I and they want to see in place. It’s a slow process as I have to grab time to do things where and how I can but things are rolling forward and that is …
Read onThe Cloud and Trust
We were having a discussion in the office yesterday that was triggered by a discovery we made about our Office365 backup solution (we use SkyKick). In a nutshell we discovered that the backup vendor has to make a few manipulations with provided credentials in order to back up site collections inside SharePoint Online. The provided …
Read onExchange almost gone KABOOM?
There is an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where Marvin the Martian is working with his illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator and it doesn’t work. “Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”, says Marvin when nothing happens. For Marvin this wasn’t good, for you with what looks to be a dead Exchange …
Read onVeeam–remote backup and replication for SMB’s–two case studies
Before I get rolling on this post let me just say this … I am unapologetic about it, I think Veeam is one of the best applications to come down the pike in a long, long time. And, no, I’m not a Veeam employee, just a very enthusiastic user of the product! OK, now for …
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