[Sussex] Really Dumb dd question

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

On 09 January 2003 at 13:46 Geoff Teale wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> ------------
> > Given that the disk has failed and this is a commercial 
> > operations you're
> > going to replace the disk anyway (disks are cheep!!!) so 
> > you'll have to 
> > get some down time anyway.
> 
> Hmm, well, according to the very prety borchure than popped 
> through my door yesterday morning, what you actually want is
> a SAN, with complete mirroring, failover, loadbalancing and
> robotic back-up - according to SUN there is _no_ cheaper way
> of ensuring rapid recovery and low failure rate.

We some people do want this.  Look at Amazon.  Their web servers
are they only form of income.  Haven't heard 0f Amazon buy high
street space yet :-)
 
> Of course this kind of strategy that your average Microsoft / 
> Dell acredited service and hardware provider would adopt -
> "Intranet server sir? Well of course you'll need a new Dell
> blade system with at least 12 Xeons, a few Gigs of RAM and
> IIS 5 with all the extras.."
>
> Personally I like Nik's approach.. .lets solve it in the 
> shell :) - this is the way of the UNIXophile.

I agree, one doesn't need the big expensive solution, a good
thought outside the box maybe just a good.  As long as you
know the limitations.

Steve