Re: General musings and/or recommendations on number of global spares to keep?



On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:16:48 +0000, GG wrote:

>> The filesystem will not be backed up - we simply don't have anything
>> large enough to back it up -to-, so if the some part of the storage
>> solution goes kerflooey, we're totally... er... out of luck, and
>> they'll probably be looking at me (the primary sysadmin on the storage
>> configuration), wondering why their data is gone.
>
> What about when a user deletes data and wants it back?

The official policy (not selected by me, but rather by the Professor
who's paying for my time) is going to be "Your home directory is backed
up, but the research data you put under /data is not unless you make
special arrangements for that yourself".
.



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