Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:33:31 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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LTO drives are probably a lot more expensive then the entire computers he is useing as a backup (one source listed the individual drives at ~$10K, I'll bet Larry's backup systems are under $5K probably under 3K)
David Lang
On 27 Jun 2003, Joshua Penix wrote:
> Date: 27 Jun 2003 21:08:06 -0700 > From: Joshua Penix <jpenix@binarytribe.com> > To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down > > 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. A LTO or SDLT drive would back the > entire 45GB thing up on a single tape, with room for at least one to two > more full backups. Granted, you're not going to have tape act as your > hot backup, but it is a good third line of defense. Plus data backed up > to tape is immune from human or software error that may otherwise affect > the hard-drive based data. > > 45GB of code is very compressible and I'm sure good chunks of that don't > change on a weekly basis. I'd imagine you could get a weekly or > bi-weekly full backup to tape in the span of about two hours, and then > do nightly differentials which would probably be only 15 minutes in > length. A filesystem capable of doing snapshots would ensure > consistency of the repositories on tape and would prevent you from > having to shutdown bkbits while backing up. > > --Josh > > - > 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/ > - 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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