Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264539AbTF1Fg1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:36:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264544AbTF1Fg0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:36:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:33486 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264539AbTF1FgV (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:36:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:50:35 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Frank Cusack Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628055035.GD21243@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Frank Cusack , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <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> <20030627224200.A14560@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030627224200.A14560@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1576 Lines: 34 On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:42:00PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > 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) Sounds great. Send me a tape drive and some media and I'll be happy to use it. Let's not forget that this is a service we provide for free that already has a fixed $1400/month cost not counting human costs. If you are volunteering to donate the hardware and the media that's great, we appreciate it. -- --- 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/