[Gllug] Backup drive for CentOS 5 remote setup

[Karanbir Singh]

On 08/16/2010 06:02 PM, John Hearns wrote:
> On a related note, I was reading a white paper on cloud computing for
> HPC - providers are increasingly able to accept
> data via 'sneakernet' shipped hard drives - one of the barriers to
> cloud HPC being the amount of time it takes to schlep around
> multi-gigabyte files unless you have some whopping academic bandwidth.

I recently moved 5TiB of data from the US to London over sneakernet, 
luks crypted HP SimpleSave 2 TiB disks each. Just to make sure we made 2 
copies and sent them via different courier companies. Worked out quite 
well, in that we were able to move the data across in 5 days time( from 
ordering the disks online, to receiving them here in London ).

This local loop is adsl! doing it over-the-wire would have taken ages.

- KB
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