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Re:Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good by woadwarrior01 on Thursday February 19, 2009 @08:44PM (#488153)
Or could it be that half a gig was just a figure he came up with to demonstrate the (ostensible) difficulty in doing a proper backup ?
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Re:Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good by look_lookatme on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:10PM (#488280)
Well, half a gig is trivial to backup. Half a terabyte is not. Assuming you meant to say 500 gigs, then yes, there is difficulty, but it's not uncharted territory. He had two xserves -- perfect for replication.
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Re:Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good by gaius on Friday February 20, 2009 @05:13AM (#488555)
It's not even close to uncharted territory. You can walk into any Apple store and buy a 1-terabyte backup device off the shelf.

OK so it won't handle your databases properly but that's not the point; 500G is not a troublesome amount of data these days.

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Re:Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good by look_lookatme on Friday February 20, 2009 @02:05PM (#489081)
No the point is backing up a 500G database is difficult, but not unpossible. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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