[Info-vax] OT: server farm backups

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:35:11 -0700 (PDT), mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote in
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>They probably take a SAN snapshot then save the data onto other disks. 

I've never heard of "SAN".  I find it interesting that there are so
few comments or even speculation as to how large server farms do a
backup.  I'm guessing that VMS is not used for anything remotely
approaching the data size of large server farms such as Amazon, eBay,
etc.
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