Re: bkbits.net is down

Frank Cusack
2003-06-28T05:27:47Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:08:06PM -0700, Joshua Penix wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 20:19, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:51:40PM -0400, Scott McDermott wrote:
> > > Larry McVoy on Fri 27/06 17:16 -0700:
> > > > I don't know if you all realize this but at one point we
> > > > had corrupted data in several repositories and the backups
> > > > were also shot.
> > >
> > > ever hear of tapes?
> >
> > bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely impractical,
> > that's why we have hot spares.
>
> Boy you do need a good admin :) Done correctly, tapes are quite
> practical for that amount of data.

Totally. 45GB of data is nothing. Even a terabyte is easily backed up
with today's [tape] technology. You can start talking about impractical
when you get to petabytes. :-) (ok, dozens of terabytes)

Hot spares perform a completely different function than backups.

/fc