Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:00:30 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:55:11PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 20:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > > > Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering > > > a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives? > > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance > > - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. > > If the issue is the time the backup itself takes, 2 hours isn't a big deal, > it'll finish over a long lunch break. If the issue is having to lock out > write access or otherwise stabilize the actual data for the time it takes to > backup, just stage a copy of the backup to a local disk and then backup to > external disk from there.
If we're talking about BK, BK already has repository level locking to get stable snapshots. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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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