Marcin Haba | Open-E Blog

Why RAID is Not a Backup

Last update: July 05, 2021 Today I would like to discuss the topic of RAID – more specifically backup issues. In the blog post title, I proposed a daring thesis ...

July 05, 2020
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Hardware Compression in a Backup With Tape Drives

Last update: July 02, 2021 Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes data compression available to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases, ...

July 02, 2020
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D2D2T: a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategy

A look at the modern data storage industry can make your head spin. From a variety of hard drives, efficient disk arrays, magnetic tapes, conventional or emulated tape libraries to ...

May 06, 2014
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Criteria for selecting files when performing full, incremental and differential backup

A fundamental function of backup and restore software is the ability to copy data from one place to another. No matter if the backup data are stored on volumes, files, ...

April 14, 2014
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Diary of an admin: Backup and Data Replication

Among many technologies that increase data storage protection, the term ‘replication’ is used very frequently. Replication, as a way of creating an exact data copy between the source storage location ...