Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

With the retail cost of a TB about $1K, if you really need it, a duplicate 
TB is not bad.  

You can even get low end commercial grade for not much more than that if you 
take low end vendor or white box solutions with service contracts, and get 
fairly reasonable performance.

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Robert L Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu>
To: richb at pioneer.ci.net
Sent: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:27:26 -0500
Subject: Re: Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:01:00 -0500 (EST)
>    From: "Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net>
> 
>    Rich Borgatti <rich at stainlesssteelstudios.com> wrote:
>    > I have a TB of Data to back up and tape was too slow to do 
> alone and auto   > loaders too expensive.
> 
>    Agreed, if you have a terabyte or more then disk is the only way 
> to   go, at least until some alternative medium arrives on the 
> scene.   Tape may or may not be it, I'm thinking maybe the tape companies
>    might switch to a cheaper/faster HDD-based cartridge solution a la
>    the "Bernoulli" thing from the 1980s.  The challenge is to get the
>    price-per-gig of archive down to something reasonable: if you want
>    to keep a long history of dumps, it's prohibitive to keep a file
>    drawer full of hard drives.
> 
>    I'm posting here, though, to query why the heck a company needs to
>    store a terabyte or more of *anything*.  My home system has a 
> tenth   of a terabyte, mostly music files.  Companies don't need to 
> back up   music (unless they're in that business) and generally 
> don't need to   back up video.  Customer lists, financial data,
>  source code and   that sort of thing simply don't require that much 
> space.
> 
> Think about a financial services company that issues credit cards, 
> and they need to store data on every single transaction for years.  They
> *absolutely* need that backup.  Think about however many billions of
> transactions we're talking about every month.
> 
> You'd be surprised (or maybe not, if you reflect on it) just how many
> companies need to store transaction data, or want to mine all of 
> that. And that's only one kind of data. 
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