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How much do you backup at work?

Hmm....we have a 3TB SANS, and a tape loader. Each tape is 480GB and we have 10+ tapes in the thing at any given time.
 
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.




 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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I don't even have a clue as to how much PB or ExaByte represents. 🙂

Our main backup doesn't exceed 15-20GB, and that's total storage. Daily, modified files rarely exceed 200MB.
 
Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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I don't even have a clue as to how much PB or ExaByte represents. 🙂

Our main backup doesn't exceed 15-20GB, and that's total storage. Daily, modified files rarely exceed 200MB.
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1000 GB = 1 TeraByte
1000 TB = 1 PetaByte
1000 PB = 1 ExaByte

 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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show off 😛
 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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25 PB... 7 years ago when hard drives maxed out around what, 20 GB? Jeez, how big is this company?
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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25 PB... 7 years ago when hard drives maxed out around what, 20 GB? Jeez, how big is this company?
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A fortune 500 company thats does IT storage services for other very large enterprises.

It's always funny for me to go to pages like AT and Slahdot ,an listen to the PC folks try and scale PC technology and managment style to the enterprise scale -

Here is a funny example of that. . I really hope the OP took some sage advise and called people handle PetaBytes for a living.

 
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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:Q Jeebus.

Who's going to be the first to make a joke about pr0n?
 
Originally posted by: Phil
Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
well 7 years ago (when I was involved) we were doing 25PB at my current company. Figure 30% annual growth rate would put us at about 156PB

50% annual growth rate would put us at about 427PB now and over a ExaByte in 3 years.

In case you are wondering it's just not practical for us to use a million SDLT tapes to do a full monthly backup, so it done to disk.

Heck we have a single database over 50TB.

Now I work in a small test lab (non-production - training use only) with over 500 servers, 50 fibre switches, and 50 storage arrays. And there is not a single bit of useful production data or nessary cpu cycle. It's all on 3 year leases - so it's always the latest and greatest.
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:Q Jeebus.

Who's going to be the first to make a joke about pr0n?
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If it was all porn - our stock options would be worth alot more. 😉
 
We have a tape library with 16 160 gig drives and 540 tape slots and our SAN has 54TB of raw storage space.

my e-penis is swelling right now.
 
Originally posted by: rudder
We have a tape library with 16 160 gig drives and 540 tape slots and our SAN has 54TB of raw storage space.

my e-penis is swelling right now.
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E-PENIS FTW
 
we do full system backup jobs every 15 minutes. we have never lost ANY information.

however, it takes like 45 minutes to open up an e-mail on the server.
 
Originally posted by: austin316
we do full system backup jobs every 15 minutes. we have never lost ANY information.

however, it takes like 45 minutes to open up an e-mail on the server.
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Atually it's not uncommon for large financial, stock trading, and manufacturing companies to "CLONE" full copies of thier databases every 2 to 4 hours, and to "SNAP" incremental copies every hour. Then they remotly replicate all data to another location (usually on a differnt powergride in another state), and that is where it's actually backedup to tape or disk using more SNAPS and CLONES.

I have seen some customers with well over 50 copies of there data from differnt points in time in that day, at up to 3 differnt geographical locations.
 
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