Do You Use It? Backup Strategies Span the Gamut - TidBITS
The results of our poll asking about your backup strategy show that most TidBITS readers employ a variety of backup methods to facilitate recovery in different disaster scenarios.| TidBITS
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the “bathtub curve” effect may be imaginary. The idea is that disk drives fail either early on in their life or after many years, and a plot of failure rate over time shows a U-shaped curve with higher rates at the start and end of working life and few or […]| Blocks and Files
For companies with sensitive data requirements or substantial investments in data centers, a hybrid cloud strategy offers the best of both worlds — and a significant management challenge. Eight members of our Roundtable discussed how to balance cloud and on-premises deployments.| Runtime
For nearly a month now, Backblaze has been fixated on a particular file of mine, that happens to be over 1 TB in size. Backblaze seemingly uploads it completely, but then on the next backup it uploads it again, even though it has not changed (in eight years!). Ad infinitum. Using their Explainfile tool to… Read more| Wade Tregaskis
The results of our poll asking about your backup strategy show that most TidBITS readers employ a variety of backup methods to facilitate recovery in different disaster scenarios.| TidBITS
The relatively new Backblaze Restore app makes it much faster and easier to restore backed-up files to your Mac, but if your initial restore fails with a “Permission denied” error, here’s the solution.| TidBITS
