[olug] Backup solutions

[Rob Townley]

There was at least one company that lost everyone's data - they used
non-enterprise grade stuff.

Curtis, that is a great post, but i don't see how the harddrives are
kept cool.  Many drives have temp gauges so would like to see how hot
it gets in between - they are packed tight.
http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/backblaze-storage-pod-partially-assembled.jpg

$5/month/pc/unlimited is a smokin deal.
Servers run Debian 4, but didn't see a Linux client package.
3 drives / 15 failure capability  --- hmmm.


On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Curtis LaMasters
<curtislamasters at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an article from a while back about the remote data backup vendor
> Backblaze.  Somewhat relevant if you wanted to build some huge disk backup
> solution.
>
> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
> <http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/>
> Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Trent Melcher <trentm at q.com> wrote:
>
>> Look at Nexsan SATABeast,  a 40 TB solution was about $50K around 4 years
>> ago, might be even cheaper today.
>>
>> Trent
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Obi-Wan
>> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 12:35 PM
>> To: olug at olug.org
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Backup solutions
>>
>> > The only backup solution that I can think of that would cost 6 figures is
>> a
>> > large tape autoloader.
>> >
>> > What kind of retention period are you guys looking for?
>>
>> I'm not sure, but I guessed a few weeks.  I speced out a Quantum LTO-5
>> autoloader from NewEgg ($5400) and told my boss about it.  He was
>> surprised, and will be duscussing it with our sysadmin when he returns
>> from vacation.
>>
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16840121075&cm_re=lto_5-
>> _-40-121-075-_-Product
>>
>> As best I can tell, it looks like we're running Amanda for our backup
>> software, and I don't see a compelling reason to change that.
>>
>> All this talk of NAS has got me wondering whether anybody makes a
>> hard drive-based solution similar to a tape autoloader.  Hard drives
>> have similar dimensions, capacity and cost to LTO-5 tapes (1.5TB for
>> $120).  I suppose the drives are less durable and weigh more, and
>> a single 7200 rpm spindle has a slower transfer speed than LTO-5.
>> You could stripe the drives for more speed, though, rather than
>> writing to them sequentially as must be done with tapes (unless you
>> spend the bucks for multi-drive autoloaders).  All it would really
>> require is a hot swap chassis with a bunch of empty drive bays, and
>> that has to cost less than a $5K autoloader.  With this setup, you
>> could just use mount the new array and use rsync to do your backups.
>> You'd get a full backup for the cost of a differential.
>>
>> Anybody heard of this being done?
>>
>> --
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