[gpfsug-discuss] SOBAR

Orlando Richards orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk
Thu Feb 7 13:56:05 GMT 2013


On 07/02/13 13:51, Orlando Richards wrote:
> On 07/02/13 13:40, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 12:47 +0000, Orlando Richards wrote:
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>>> Nice - good to see this kind of thing coming from IBM - restore of huge
>>> filesystems from traditional backup really doesn't make much sense
>>> nowadays - it'd just take too long.
>>
>> Define too long?

Oh - for us, this is rapidly approaching "anything more than a day, and 
can you do it faster than that please". Not much appetite for the costs 
of full replication though.

:/



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