The Backup Wrap-Up

W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the AWS outage that happened over Labor Day weekend, where some customers actually lost data. We also discuss what they could/should have done to prevent that.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi talk with Steve Schaub at VMworld 2019 about VMware's announcements, and we also tell funny backup stories.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss various challenges with disaster recovery. We also have a very special guest star!

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Ben Patridge talk about the things they learned while working in IT and backups at a bank.

Special guest on the podcast this week, Ben Patridge (Portland beer Ben), and W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) discuss horror stories and other things gone wrong with backups, while drinking a couple of Trappist beers from Belgium.

After covering in the last episode why tape isn't really good for backup anymore, W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the continued uses for tape. It's not dead -- even growing.

W. Curtis Preston (AKA Mr. Backup) explains to Prasanna Malaiyandi the early days of tape, and what happened to make backup and tape to become bad for each other.

Today we have a special guest on Restore it All, and it's none other than Jeff Rochlin, an industry veteran and long-time friend. He's going to be giving us the inside scoop about how they do storage and backups in Hollywood, where he has worked for over 40 years. He started out as an actor, and has run IT for the likes of Disney, Dreamworks, and is now head of IT at Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes. This episode is a little longer than most, but it's full of good stuff. I hope you enjoy it.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi are joined by a guest, Matt Leib, and they discuss how Microsoft disabled the registry backup in Windows 10 and told no one.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malayaindi interview an IT director from a tech company in the bay area. (Company and full name withheld for privacy reasons.) . We discuss what it's like to be an IT and security manager in today's world.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss different ways of using the cloud for backup

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss why it's important to backup SaaS services such as Office 365, G Suite, and Salesforce

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss various ways people perform disaster recovery

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malayaindi discuss how to protect yourself from ransomware, and how to recover from if it happens.

W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss various things people say are backup, which actually aren't backup.

In our premiere episode of Backup Central's Restore it All Podcast, W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) & Prasanna Malaiyandi discuss the one year anniversary of GDPR