Re: bkbits.net is down

Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-28T03:49:53Z

Hello Larry , Foooeeyyyyy ! It was not the SCSI drives that
failed you from what you had posted . It was the drivers which
were puking (afaict) . I'll admit that tape backup of heavily
changing data is a test in futility . But I'll NOT fail in making
my backups , ever !-) . Twyl , JimL

# dmesg | grep -B2 -A5 -i adaptec
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec I2O RAID controller 0 at faa48000 size=100000 irq=26
dpti: If you have a lot of devices this could take a few minutes.
dpti0: Reading the hardware resource table.
TID 008 Vendor: ADAPTEC Device: AIC-7899 Rev: 00000001
TID 525 Vendor: ADAPTEC Device: RAID-5 Rev: 380E
scsi2 : Vendor: Adaptec Model: 2110S FW:380E
Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: RAID-5 Rev: 380E
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

# dmesg | grep sdd
SCSI device sdd: 177827840 512-byte hdwr sectors (91048 MB)

# df /home/archive /home/jiml
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1 57422288 24301792 30156504 45% /home/archive
/dev/sdd2 28703752 19319748 7902412 71% /home/jiml
--------
43621540

root@filesrv1:~ # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg3
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'COMPAQ '
Product ID: 'TSL-9000 '
Revision: '2.06'

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, 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.
>
> > how about SCSI?
>
> The raid system that failed is SCSI.
>

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