[geeks] ive been converted

[Ken Hansen]

My previous employer (Bellcore/Telcordia) used an Optical disk "farm" to backup *all* servers under central IT management. They charged $$$/gig month for backup services, then they would do full and incremental backups on a nightly basis (6 increments and  a full each week). The cost per gig was non-trivial. 

But, we were able to restore files at will, and it gave the IT folks a reason to *really* throw alot of bandwidth around the "campus".

This was several years ago, but it was very nice... Backups just "happened."

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Katz [mailto:jon at jonworld.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 11:51 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] ive been converted


Josh pointed out:
> They are still in business.  I wish that companies would publish more
> indept corporate histories on their web sites.  I know that Scitex has
> been around a long time, but I've previously had trouble founding much
> historical data.

My hunch is that companies who are making such fantastic stuff are making
it for specific markets and specific parties and those parties don't want
the rest of the planet to know where they "got such wonderful toys" to
quote The Penguin.

How many of you have worked with/seen/used/abused the optical disk
jukebokes used for backups? You know, the ones which hold 20,000
Write-Once laserdisk-sized platters and are guaranteed in-perpetuity
and allow for life-time warm backups for a company or clandestine
government agency. The platters cost $1,000 a piece, too.

-Jon
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