Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup

On 5/15/20 6:01 PM, Michael Nolan wrote:
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> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:51 PM Ravi Krishna <srkrishna1(at)comcast(dot)net
> <mailto:srkrishna1(at)comcast(dot)net>> wrote:
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>> Why should the backup land in S3, and not local somewhere?
>> Any good reason why one should pay for the additional storage and
>> transfer costs?
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> Good question. The key point in my statement was "db of this size".
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> The problem with local backup is that space is not infinite.
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> Another problem is storage devices fail.  S3 storage lakes _should_ be
> checking your data integrity on a regular basis and possibly maintaining
> copies of it iin multiple locations so you're not vulnerable to a site
> disaster.

Tape FTW!!

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