My favorite storage issues is that of backup space and performance. The group that is responsible for configuring and selling hardware to our customers is notorius for neglecting to acknowledge that they need to look at the current backup hardware to identify if they can still back up the data that the new hardware will store. There is nothing better than seeing the reaction of a customer when they hit the wall of backing up 4TB to a single LTO1 table drive. Hmmm... someone messed up that one.

In the age of SAN and NAS storage Tape is quickly becoming a problem media both from a time to backup as well as a time to recover standpoint. Disk based backup for the primary is probably going to be the only option for a while. I am still however a firm believer in true backups and not replication as there is no better way to loose data than to replicate a delete.

It amazes me how many people do not understand that replication is not a backup