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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.234702.26481@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <ericw.724459057@hobbes>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:47:02 GMT
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- In article <ericw.724459057@hobbes>, ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa) writes:
- >
- >The subject says it all. "How do you back up a terabyte?"
-
- By having smart backup utilities that understand the data they backup
- in appliation specific ways and only backup the parts that have
- changed. Such utilities run continously or as continuously as the
- backup media allows. If efficient use of space and time requires
- occasional check points of frequently change large files, then they
- take care of the check pointing, probably with assists from the
- file system.
-
- For example, modificiations to a system error log are typically
- done as append operation. Further it might be reasonable to assume
- that the system error log is not something that needs to be backed up with
- great frequency. An application specific backup program might then
- checkpoint the file to backup media and remember where it stopped.
- When it decides that the changes need to be backed up it just
- copies from that point to the current end of file.
-
- A randomly accessed GB database will probably have backups done as
- records change, with an occasional check point when the number of
- changes gets too large to be able to restore easily.
-
- >
- >And while I'm at it, how do you fsck at terabyte?
-
- You don't. At least not in the traditional sense. When it gets that
- large you probably journal and expire the changes as they are comitted.
- Those not committed can be replayed from the file system journal, quickly
- if it is ever necessary.
-
- >
- >
- >>>>Ericw
- >
- >--
- >Eric Wedaa - eric.wedaa@amd.com
- >
- --
- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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