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On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Backups. |
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> > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. |
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> Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? |
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To be fair, he was responding to a parent that asked about backing up 3.8G of |
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data, so USB sticks are not unfeasible. Until they get lost that is. |
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Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their new SSDs. |
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The reason is that I'm getting sick and tired of having to explain and |
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justify why the laws of physics prevent my girlfriend from being able to |
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backup her 5T banking warehouse on the schedule the law of the country would |
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like her to. There's a solution, but it's hackish and ugly and involves |
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extremely careful management of LVM snapshots. This is simply way too much |
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admin effort for what should really be a simple incremental backup process. |
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And let's not even get into what restores involve |
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Let's face it, disks only spin so fast and Moore's law does not apply to disk |
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and tape speed. Vastly improving the first half - drive speed - is a huge |
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first step in the right direction. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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