Re: > 16TB worth of data question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dennis Gearon
Subject Re: > 16TB worth of data question
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In response to Re: > 16TB worth of data question  (Jeremiah Jahn <jeremiah@cs.earlham.edu>)
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One thing to think of, is how much is your REPUTATION worth? If everything you touch, turns to gold, keeps working,
raisesand better equipment are a LOT easier to get. OTOH................ 

Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 11:47, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>
>>>On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 10:31, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
>>>
>>>>At 08:13 AM 4/22/2003 -0500, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>That's the question...That 2 TB of data is nothing but documents and
>>>>>images. I'm under the perception that if that gets parked on a fibre
>>>>>channel disk array/ SAN the data will be pretty safe, and the server
>>>>>mostly replaceable at that time. Storage is my worry more than
>>>>>processing power. I don't think I'm on crack here...?
>>>>
>>>>How about backups? Backing up 2-16TB needs a bit more planning and design.
>>>
>>>The proposed solution here is to have the raid controller mirror accross
>>>the street to a similar system. At what point do off line backups become
>>>pointless?
>>
>>I've always been told to ask the question -- what's your data worth to
>>you or how much $ will you lose if you lose your data?  That should answer
>>the question on offline backups.
>>
>>-philip
>
>
> It's for the court system, so not much really. It basically a convience
> only.
>


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