On 07/28/16 07:22, Josh Fisher wrote: > My opinion is that the Internet is not yet fast enough or robust enough > for full backups of multi-terabyte systems. I would store fulls to local > disk and then rsync to GD. It should be feasible to store incrementals > directly to GD. However, if none of the filesystems are robust enough, > then I would table the whole idea until they are.
I would expand upon to say that Internet or "cloud-based" storage is really not fast enough to practically back up large quantities of data in a practical period of time - not that the storage itself is too slow, but with few exceptions, the available upload speed simply is not enough to back up the needed volume of data in a backup cycle of less than days to weeks. The principal exceptions to this are broadband end-users who are only backing up a few personal documents and their family photos, and large enterprises with the budget for extremely fast (gigabit or faster) network uplinks. This has always historically been so, and I contend that in most cases it is likely to always remain so, quite simply because the volume of data being stored has historically tended to be large compared to available Internet uplink bandwidth and is, on the whole, increasing faster than uplink bandwidth. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
