If somebody asked you to do the exact same work over and over again, would you think that was a smart thing to do? Of course not. But that’s exactly what many of us are doing in our backup environments.
There are a lot of technology approaches to backup, and all of them have to deal with ever increasing amounts of data. But they are not all equally smart. In fact, when you look at them a certain way they can be downright stupid. And while “Dumb and Dumber” may have been quite popular as a movie, it shouldn’t serve as an approach to backup.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/data-storage/22184/files_bricks_backup
