[Gluster-users] >1PB

[Matty]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Nathan Stratton <nathan at robotics.net> wrote:

> Gluster can easily support a large number of nodes, the question is how much
> you care about the underlying data. We store 2 copies of the data and our
> underlying hardware is RAID6 allowing us to lose 2 disks on each server. As
> the number of nodes grows that chance of losing a node becomes higher, but
> one of the beautiful things about Gluster is you still have access to all
> the other data that is NOT on the lost pair of servers. We have found that
> your best bet is to split the data over as many servers as possible provides
> the best up time.

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.

- Ryan
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