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Re: tapes are doomed
2003-03-13 11:10:32
I have had a NAS go offline :-) forever, the most appropriate
speculation was that some part of the NAS was hit by a myon, ( as in
cosmic particle hits silicon ), also heavily raided systems go bust due
to either bus issues ( all on the bus is not on the disk if the power
goes ) or cache failures ( virtual caches on mutli CPU's ).
In all those cases it have been possible to recover from tape, I
certainly believe that tape has a futute.
Also sometimes you have to have snapshots in safe storage in order to
fulfill the requirements of insurance companies and such.
Lug around a disk ?
/ regards, Lars Segerlund.
tobias.bluhm AT philips DOT com wrote:
"wab" <wab AT purdue DOT edu> wrote
Case in point... My department just approved the purchase of a $4,500
Iomega NAS server, to replace our NT and Unix tape backup DLT drives. I
will soon be facilitating the use of AMANDA to a NAS server Vs. a SCSI
DLT Tape. I look forward to the challenge/opportunity!
So what happens when your NAS goes haywire & scribbles all over your
backups? Or say a small meteor crashes through your roof & wipes out your
live disks & backup disks?
Not trying to tell anyone what to do. I guess I just don't understand the
"we don't need no tape" attitude some folks have.
--
toby bluhm
philips medical systems, it support, mr development, cleveland ohio
tobias.bluhm AT philips DOT com
440-483-5323
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