Re: > 16TB worth of data question

One thing to think of, is how much is your REPUTATION worth? If everything you touch, turns to gold, keeps working, raises and 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
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> It's for the court system, so not much really. It basically a convience
> only.
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