Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265420AbTF1Urk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:47:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265441AbTF1Urk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:47:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:25815 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265438AbTF1UqV (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:46:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:00:30 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: David Schwartz Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628210030.GG18676@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , David Schwartz , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 1170 Lines: 26 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/