Episodes

We talk to Mike Johnson of ComplyTrust, who says they "remember those you are supposed to forget." We talk about the data management challenges created by data subject access requests (DSARs), right-of-erasure (ROE, AKA right...

This week we discuss further lessons from the OVH fire, which starts with an admission by the CEO that some customers who paid for the backup service lost their backups in the fire. It then morphs into a discussion about des...

This week we discuss a topic brought up by the OVH fire. It appears some people actually had a contractual backup service that wasn't doing it's job. How do you verify that a service you're paying for is real, and is doing ...

Datacenter manager Dan Frith (@penguinpunk) joins us on the podcast for our first discussion of the #OVHFire. A massive fire destroyed a datacenter of a large cloud provider in Europe, and millions of websites disappeared. We...

It only took us 100 episodes, but we finally got Dave Russell, VP of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam, as our guest on the podcast. Dave and Curtis go way back, and this was a great discussion. We cover the proper use of tape, ...

Our anonymous guest this week is from a Fortune 100 company who is considering swapping out their backup product. Our guest has been at the company for over 20 years, and remembers swapping out NetWorker for NetBackup many y...

A Veeam user warns of what he felt is a confusing option in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. He says he likes the product, but that the first retention setting mentioned in the documentation (item-level retention) might not d...

Adi Ruppin, founder of Ananda Networks, joins us on the podcast to discuss how they secure – and increase the performance of – network traffic without deploying a VPN or SD-WAN. He talks about how the technologies we use fo...

It's hard to believe, but this is our 100th episode! Prasanna and Curtis discuss the favorite topics we've had over 100 episodes, as well as the many things we've learned along the way. We talk about containers and K8s, tap...

Russ Cantwell (@rcantw3ll), CTO of SHI Corp, joins us to talk about Kubernetes, the Container Storage Interface (CSI), and backups. Before we get to that, however, we talk about how he, his pregnant wife, and two-year old ch...

Another industry veteran, Jose Calhariz. joins us this week to explain how he uses the community versions of two open-source backup tools to meet his university's backup needs, while saving money. We have a very interesting ...

Darren McBride, CEO of Highly Reliable Systems (http://high-rely.com/ ) joins us on this podcast to talk about their product, which he says is designed for SMBs to get reliable offsite backup without using tape or an Internet...

In May of 2020, Tony Mendoza of Spectra Logic found out his company had been attacked by ransomware. Hear his harrowing tale of how long it took just to get the data center ready for a restore, and then the various tools the...

Rob Morrison joins us from Bacula Systems, the commercial arm of the open-source backup product, Bacula. It's tagline is that it roams the datacenter at night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula Systems ...

This week’s episode is dedicated to my friend Jim Bougor, who passed on this week. Jim, this week’s guest (Darryl Baker), and I all worked at Collective Technologies back in the day. Darryl comes with over 30 years of backu...

Chainkit Founder & CEO Val Bercovici returns to the podcast to build on what we learned last week. This week we talk about how distributed ledger technology (such as the one in BlockChain, but there are others), can be used ...

We invite blockchain expert Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO of ChainKit, on the podcast to explain the basics of distributed ledgers, as well as the biggest distributed ledger – BlockChain. He explains what a distributed ledger...

Prasanna and Curtis discuss the importance of occasionally refreshing your hardware (or virtual hardware) and how important backup in in that scenario. There are many modern tools that can help you migrate from one thing to ...

Julie Ulrich, Systems Engineer at Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan, joins us on this episode to talk about her experiences with NetBackup and Rubrik in her world. She’s been working in backups for over 25 years, so has seen...

These are the kinds of stories that keep you up at night. UK police deleted hundreds of thousands of records. Sysadmin accidentally deleting thousands of users. A new backup "feature" that made the backups worthless. The i...

In another fascinating look into a very different world (backup-wise), we are delighted to have Timo Piiparinen from Multicom in Finland. He’s been in the IT industry for over 40 years at the same company! TImo gave us a fas...

We welcome Andrew Wertkin, Chief Strategy Officer of BlueCat, a DNS, DHCP, & IPAM (DDI) security company. Like backup, properly securing these parts of your infrastructure are both extremely important – and everyone thinks i...

Vanessa Toves joins us again to explain exactly why you need to backup Microsoft 365 and similar services. We talk about how Microsoft is only responsible for that platform; you are responsible for the data. Particular atten...

Vanessa Toves, a Microsoft 365 expert, joins us on Restore it All to explain the unique architecture of Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office365). We talk about Teams and Groups, and how many people misuse both. We cover ...