Re: bkbits.net is down

Larry McVoy
2003-06-28T05:36:27Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:42:00PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
> 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)

Sounds great. Send me a tape drive and some media and I'll be happy to
use it. Let's not forget that this is a service we provide for free that
already has a fixed $1400/month cost not counting human costs. If you
are volunteering to donate the hardware and the media that's great, we
appreciate it.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm