Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:25:35 -0500 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, karl@mcs.net Cc: grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, blkirk@float.eli.net, jdn@acp.qiv.com, tlambert@primenet.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Subject: RE: SCSI Bus redundancy... Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE4132D4@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> ---------- > From: Karl Denninger[SMTP:karl@mcs.net] > > > > I wrote a white paper at Oracle some years ago, claiming that > databases > > over a certain size simply cannot be backed up. I became very > UN-popular > > very quickly. In you moderate setup, you already see the proof of > > corectness. > > Correct. I consider any "regular" filesystem with more than 4G of > data on > Databases are not regular filesystems. They have little number of big files. > it to be unrestorable, simply because there isn't enough time to do > the > restore and not get skewered. > Save it to tape as an image of logical disk. Restore it in the same way. With things like OnlineJFS you can even do save it online. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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