Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:19:20 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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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.
> how about SCSI?
The raid system that failed is SCSI. -- --- 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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