Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk - raided
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:04, Alvin Oga wrote:
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>
> hi ya petro
>
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote:
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> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk
> > > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user
> > > > --- has all the data... no way for stealing corp secrets
> >
> > > That's innovative, but impractical.
> >
> > No, it's a great idea, but you can do the same thing even more
> > safely with tapes.
>
> good point.. give um tapes.... most people dont have an expensive
> drive sitting at home .... to go poking around on it
> while everybody can poke around on an ide disk
And I'll be bringing home my greater-than-terabyte-sized
enterprise database (to poke around with it..) some time in
the near future??? Not likely.
Besides, I don't have a $3M Alpha w/ VMS & Rdb licenses
in the back bedroom, either...
> > > A terabyte is 10 AIT-3 tapes. How many disks is it?
> >
> > 10 120 gig IDE drives.
> >
> > Each with lots of electronics to fail.
>
> yuppers... and with a tape drive.. you only fix one ??
The likelihood that 1 of 10 mechanical devices will break
in a given timespan is far more likely than the likelyhood
of just one device breaking.
> and i've never dropped at tape drive... nor disks...
> - tapes get dropped because a klutz like me is swapping
> out a tape w/ feeble fingers...
To quote you:
> > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk
> > > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user
> > > > --- has all the data... no way for stealing corp secrets
By definition, you must pull those spindles in order to give
them to the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar. So, not only might _you_
drop the disks, but the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar may also drop them.
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