[Gluster-users] >1PB

[John Lauro]

Just a warning about not doing backups because things are so reliable...

Due to all the redundancy, I don't recall the last time I used a backup
for a hardware failure.  That said, I do need them for user error...

Unless those two copies of the data are protected from each other and not
replicated instantly...  a user error will mess up both copies as quickly
as one.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-
> bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Stratton
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:45 AM
> To: Matty
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] >1PB
> 
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Matty wrote:
> 
> > How are folks backing up large amounts of data in their gluster file
> > systems? Replication? Snapshots and archival? As file systems grow to
> > 1PB the conventional backup to disk / tape methodology needs to
> > change. We are putting a lot of thought into this subject here.
> 
> At lest on our end, we don't have backups.... We just make sure we have
2
> copies of the data on RAID6 hardware.
> 
> ><>
> Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
> nathan at robotics.net                         nathan at blinkmind.com
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> > - Ryan
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