Backups (was: Firewall)

[Jean Francois]

This is not exactly the technology you are looking for.
This is not exactly like RAID.
Read this and see.

http://parlweb.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/el2000/extreme2000.html


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--- "Shawn T. Rutledge" <ecloud@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:47:16PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > Not that cheap, but look at ecrix. Good tape drives, for cheap considering
> 
> Yikes.  Even the tape cartridges aren't cheap.  You could buy quite a
> pile of 30-gig hard drives for the cost of the tape drive plus the same
> number of tapes.  Tape tech. has always had a hard time staying 
> competitive, IMO; especially for home users.
> 
> Incremental backup to CDRs makes a lot of sense; too bad the software
> to do it would be kindof complex, as would the restore procedure.
> 
> What I'd really like is a distributed FS, aggregating free space on all 
> of the machines on the network, and simultaneously guaranteeing 2-3x 
> redundancy of the data.  Maybe the result would even be faster, because
> several disks are seeking at once, just like with RAID.  Then, just
> manually back up important data once in a while as an extra failsafe.  
> I would probably only use such a filesystem for /home, because all the 
> irreplaceable data is there, and applications can be re-installed.
> Maybe also for /usr/local, for the apps I spend a lot of time compiling
> instead of just doing apt-get.
> 
> Can coda do such tricks?
> 


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