blog.species5618.net » Earthquakes http://blog.species5618.net The time has come to VENT my anger on the world Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Disk based backups and Earthquakes http://blog.species5618.net/2008/02/27/disk-based-backups-and-earthquakes/ http://blog.species5618.net/2008/02/27/disk-based-backups-and-earthquakes/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:05:43 +0000 Species5618 http://blog.species5618.net/2008/02/27/disk-based-backups-and-earthquakes/ About a month ago I was in an infrastructure meeting discussing backup strategy. The conversation was around disk based backups such as near store and Virtual tape libraries.
So I asked the question “do we know how these disk based backup system cope with earth quakes?”
As yesterdays data could be on the same disk that is being access today, a disk level corruption could be “interesting”
As the point in time I got laughed at, “Earthquakes, yeh right !”

Does not seem such a silly question now does it !

From BBC The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country.”

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