About me

Dan Gauld is an experienced IT professional with over 20 years experience. Focused in the area of backup/recovery and data storage since 2006, he’s performed numerous assessments, deployments and upgrades for NetBackup, Backup Exec, NetWorker and Commvault infrastructures. Being familiar with best practices both specific and general for these environments enables him to quickly identify inefficiencies and possible improvements that can be made in technology and process. Experienced in supporting both disk and tape technologies including StorageTek, NetApp, EMC and Data Domain. Here at backupbuddha he writes about backup recovery for both the enterprise as well as the home consumer. He someday hopes to retire to his secret underground base surrounded by an army of robot ninjas.