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Bob Christ and George Tyler have send this collection of white papers on backing up, data recovery and regulations. These are downloadable papers which provide valuable information to anyone who owns, operates or contributes to servers or computers with lots of data...

11 Common UNIX Backup Mistakes

by Bob Christ

Recovery of data is critical, as some business learn the hard way. This article addresses 11 common mistakes made by users, and shows how to avoid as many problems as possible. If you can't recover your data, your backup was a waste of time.
      Download PDF: 11Common.pdf

The BRU Advantage

Backup of data is important, but recovery of data is critical. If a user cannot recover, backups are pointless. This article addresses the points where data can become corrupt, and how to address these issues to insure reliability. BRU was uniquely architected from the prospective of recovery first.
      Download PDF: TheBRUAdvantage2003.pdf

BRU's Support of Regulatory Governance

In today's business world there are over 90,000 regulations concerning data. Retention of data is mandated. This article addresses issues of backing up data assist with compliance of some of major regulations. Data that cannot be recovered does not conform to any regulation.
      Download PDF:GovtRegulations.pdf

About the Author

Bob Christ, Executive Vice President of TOLIS, is a high technology professional with 35 years of experience, over 15 of which have been in the storage industry. Bob's career spans across a breadth of disciplines including field engineering, customer service management, OEM sales management, and corporate marketing management.

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