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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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