[Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

[Derek Atkins]

Jack Coats <jack at coats.org> writes:

> http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/
>
> A little off topic, but these guys have come out with 3.0 of their
> 'big NAS server' build.
> Storage upgrade is mainly 3T to 4T drives (45 of them), but they do have other
> refinements and learnings that have come along with this upgrade they
> share in the blog post.
>
> Worth the read for the uber-geeky.

My understanding is that their requirements are for large-scale,
write-once, read-rarely storage.  I don't think their devices are tuned
for high performance read-write operations that you would want from,
e.g., a media server.

-derek

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