From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:42:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030627224200.A14560@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1056773286.10255.5.camel@granite>; from jpenix@binarytribe.com on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:08:06PM -0700
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
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-21 13:58 bkbits.net is down Larry McVoy
2003-06-21 19:09 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-22 0:26 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-23 5:37 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-25 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-25 17:26 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-25 17:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-26 13:33 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-26 21:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-26 21:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-26 22:25 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-06-27 10:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-27 14:57 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 15:06 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-27 18:30 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-27 15:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-01 14:50 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-01 17:07 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-27 16:28 ` nick
2003-06-27 16:37 ` CaT
2003-06-27 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-27 22:12 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 22:15 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 8:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-28 13:41 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 23:27 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 23:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 23:55 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-06-28 0:16 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 0:51 ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-28 3:19 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 4:04 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-28 4:08 ` Joshua Penix
2003-06-28 4:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 5:42 ` Frank Cusack [this message]
2003-06-28 5:50 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 7:33 ` David Lang
2003-07-01 15:46 ` vlad
2003-06-28 8:08 ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-28 14:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 19:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-28 19:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28 19:18 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 19:38 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-06-28 19:47 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-06-28 20:55 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-28 21:00 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 21:06 ` Abramo Bagnara
2003-06-28 22:15 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-06-28 22:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-28 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-01 20:42 ` Zed Pobre
2003-06-29 6:24 ` Daniel Egger
2003-06-29 10:24 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-29 13:14 ` Daniel Egger
2003-06-30 15:16 ` Andrew Ryan
2003-06-29 15:08 ` Brian Jackson
2003-06-28 20:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-29 20:18 ` Pau Aliagas
2003-07-03 5:08 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 0:01 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-28 0:07 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-28 0:24 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-26 21:35 ` Joel Jaeggli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-29 3:34 David Brownell
2003-06-29 3:42 Hemmann, Volker Armin
2005-04-12 2:17 Larry McVoy
2005-04-12 11:10 ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-12 12:33 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-04-12 12:38 ` Diego Calleja
2005-04-12 15:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-04-12 21:10 ` Toon van der Pas
2005-04-13 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-04-13 10:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
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