Re: bkbits.net is down

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:19:20 -0700

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.

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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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