new hard drive

[ger87410]

Fire?

 

[Glory_Freestyle]

Yikes and Wow.

After the fire last week, disaster recovery plan is my focus. I'm redoing quite a bit of how I have things setup, including where different machines are.

I hear ya. I'm actually in the process of researching some Active-Archiving and data De-duplication solutions.

It's a PITA because at least 60% of the data on the SAN has not been modified in at least 2 years, but most of it has been accessed at one point or another during that time.

Looking to set up a 10 TB SATA array for a good solid Backup-to-Disk location and move all the old stuff there for "near-line"

I'd like to get my full backups down to 2-3 tapes.

Lawyers are PACK RATS to say the least.

 

[SuperJETT]

We had a major fire here at work last week that reinforced having a good disaster recovery plan for me regarding my servers/data. The fire was in a production area and caused the roof to collapse plus burned up every wire in the building.

Fire?

http://www.wlky.com/news/19642104/detail.html

My servers weren't affected, but it just reminds you what could happen if say a UPS shorted and caused a fire in the server room.

 

[SuperJETT]

I was wrong, my backup array is 15k rpm SAS drives in raid 5---speedy!

 

[rasper99]

I was wrong, my backup array is 15k rpm SAS drives in raid 5---speedy!

I was on a contract in an R & D lab at Intel last year. Did a little playing around since it wasn't a production environment. Using multiple SAN disk storage systems did some testing that had throughputs of 1.3 gigabytes per second from one server. Yes, I'm sure it was gigabytes not gigabits. A tad faster than your average USB 2.0 external.

That would fill a 1 TB drive in 12 minutes. Now that's speedy!

 

[onesojourner]

I love big storage. I have been pretty happy with the seagate 1.5t.

 

[rasper99]

While we are on the subject of backups what do you use?

On Windows I create a reasonable size system partition (30 GB for XP) and a data/program files partition (rest of disk). I use an imaging program on the system partition and robocopy on other partitions.

On Linux I use rsync.

Sure nice to fire up the time machine to completely clean out cooties. Much better than than waving Spybot, etc at them and hearing them laugh as they return three reboots later. :smile: