[Info-vax] OT: server farm backups

[Shadow]

On 2014-09-29, CRNG <noemail at atthisdomain.gov> wrote:
> I retired about 15 years ago from being a system manager of a (then
> old) VAX/VMS system.  I did backups to a tape cartridge system daily,
> weekly, etc.
>
> I noticed a photo the other day of a modern server farm and got to
> wondering what in the world does a company like Amazon use to backup
> the gargantuan amount of data on their systems?  Surely it can't be
> something like tape cartridges.  Does anyone have any idea?
>
> Just curious about it.

I have no idea but I suspect they just replicate all their data with RAID
and replace disks that die and never really back anything up.

They leave that to the National Basketball Association and their 50 zillion
square mile colo in Utah.

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