Rick Cook Contributor Rick Cook is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to SearchStorage.com. Rick Cook’s Most Recent Content Search Data Backup Data backup failure: Top 5 causes and tips for prevention 18 Jan 2023 Search Data Backup RAID 6 vs. RAID 10: Which is better to prevent data loss? 01 Jun 2022 Search Data Backup RAID 50: How to select the right RAID level 26 Sep 2019 WhatIs Multipath I/O (MPIO) 27 Jul 2012 Search Data Backup Buying your first backup tape library: What you need to know 14 Jun 2010 Search Storage Data storage capacity planning: How to estimate your storage requirements 22 Mar 2010 Search Storage Data storage management strategies: Managing logical unit numbers (LUNs) 01 Mar 2010 Search Data Backup Symantec Backup Exec troubleshooting performance tips 22 Jun 2009 Search Data Backup Using an autoloader tape drive for data backup in SMBs 11 May 2009 Search Data Backup Using custom data backup scripts in a modern backup environment 27 Apr 2009 Search Data Backup How to optimize your backup tape rotation strategy 02 Feb 2009 Search Data Backup Ten things you should ask a vendor before buying a tape library 30 Sep 2008 Search Data Backup Backup and recovery basics: Testing your backups 15 Sep 2008 Search Data Backup The differences between block-based and file-based data backup 25 Aug 2008 Search Data Backup Tips and tools for making the most of event log files 16 Jul 2008 Search Data Backup How to destroy data on backup tapes 05 Jun 2007 Search Data Backup How to estimate the lifespan of LTO tapes 01 May 2007 Search Data Management Backup failure: Five reasons backups fail and tips for prevention 27 Jul 2006 ComputerWeekly.com Testing iSCSI SAN performance with Iometer 23 Jul 2006 ComputerWeekly.com ISCSI SANs: How to alleviate the congestion 09 Apr 2006 ComputerWeekly.com Zoning 101: Why zone? 03 Oct 2005 ComputerWeekly.com CDP: Super snapshots -- eventually 23 May 2005 ComputerWeekly.com Pros and cons of disk-to-disk backup 13 Dec 2004 ComputerWeekly.com Microsoft supports iSCSI SAN clusters -- kind of 22 Aug 2004
