Just a warning about not doing backups because things are so reliable... Due to all the redundancy, I don't recall the last time I used a backup for a hardware failure. That said, I do need them for user error... Unless those two copies of the data are protected from each other and not replicated instantly... a user error will mess up both copies as quickly as one. > -----Original Message----- > From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users- > bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Stratton > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:45 AM > To: Matty > Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: Re: >1PB > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Matty wrote: > > > How are folks backing up large amounts of data in their gluster file > > systems? Replication? Snapshots and archival? As file systems grow to > > 1PB the conventional backup to disk / tape methodology needs to > > change. We are putting a lot of thought into this subject here. > > At lest on our end, we don't have backups.... We just make sure we have 2 > copies of the data on RAID6 hardware. > > ><> > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com > > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
