Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264398AbTF1F1r (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:27:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264437AbTF1F1r (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:27:47 -0400 Received: from 216-239-45-4.google.com ([216.239.45.4]:4524 "EHLO 216-239-45-4.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264398AbTF1F1q (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:27:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:42:00 -0700 From: Frank Cusack To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030627224200.A14560@google.com> References: <20030627145727.GB18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <1056773286.10255.5.camel@granite> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1056773286.10255.5.camel@granite>; from jpenix@binarytribe.com on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:08:06PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 28 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/