Re: bkbits.net is down

[Larry McVoy]

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.