Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?

2007-10-18 17:25:25
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:10 +0000
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:44:03PM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote:
> So you're OK with hash-based de-dupe, which everyone acknowledges has a
> chance (although quite small) that you could have a hash-collision and
> potentially corrupt a block of data somewhere, sometime, when you least
> expect it...
> 
> But you're NOT ok with the long-running industry standard of loss-less
> compression algorithms? [...]

I think the smiley on the end indicated that it was a humorous comment.
At least that's how I took it.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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