Re: > 16TB worth of data question

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 11:47, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 10:31, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> > > At 08:13 AM 4/22/2003 -0500, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
> > > >That's the question...That 2 TB of data is nothing but documents and
> > > >images. I'm under the perception that if that gets parked on a fibre
> > > >channel disk array/ SAN the data will be pretty safe, and the server
> > > >mostly replaceable at that time. Storage is my worry more than
> > > >processing power. I don't think I'm on crack here...?
> > >
> > > How about backups? Backing up 2-16TB needs a bit more planning and design.
> > The proposed solution here is to have the raid controller mirror accross
> > the street to a similar system. At what point do off line backups become
> > pointless?
>
> I've always been told to ask the question -- what's your data worth to
> you or how much $ will you lose if you lose your data?  That should answer
> the question on offline backups.
>
> -philip

It's for the court system, so not much really. It basically a convience
only.

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Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah@cs.earlham.edu>