Oh, and back up your bookmarks. It's a good habit!
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Many smart people spend their careers on this. Some solutions include: being really smart about figuring out only what's changed, not the whole enchilada. Or copying stuff to multiple places. Or just paying a king's ransom for the biggest straw you can get.
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Or if you're not so smart, you can rent a fancy Mazda (that detects stop signs!) and drive your backups and your Japanese robot toilets through the basin and range in the snow. Half the cars on the road are full of hard disks and Japanese toilets. Look around you.
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Get 80 TB of RAM on the target server, write to disk after it's all been buffered. Y'know, the MongoDB way.
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one thing we learned early on that kinda surprised me ... *truly* reliable storage is.. a much harder problem than you'd think. Even factoring in good ol' RAID 10 arrays. But as someone wise once saidhttps://twitter.com/pinboard/status/761656824202276864?lang=en …
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There is a Dutch professor who wrote a networking text book (I can’t remember his name or the title of the book) but he begins the book talking about the massive bandwidth capabilities of a station wagon full of backup tapes. Its problem? Latency.
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Latency's only a problem if you drive like a pussy
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