Well I'm Stunned

What on Earth requires 260Gb of data? The entire text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is a summary of all human knowledge, can fit on one CD. On my machine I have almost 100 downloaded books (so far) and it barely makes a dent in my 40Gb drive - not to mention 100s of downloaded physics papers as PDFs, etc. etc. Have we lost track of what numbers mean?

Well, have you seen some of the ERP solutions these days??? All of the make-work people do... all of the DUPLICATION of data people do... How about the attitude... Use all you want we'll buy more! How about DB's that have 60GB Partitions... then the COPIES of the Prodution data in various stages of "patching"... oh BTW, did I mention PeopleSoft gives use 400MB of compressed patches a month per "system"... those systems being "Learning Solutions", "Human Management"(I htink that is it's real name) and "Business Services". Plus... we can't let the "Testing System" loose an data... think of all the "Hours" of testing and ad-hoc changes not yet captured...

Just the COBOL Source for all 3 systems in 1200MB(uncompressed). More or less... everything is in a constant state of flux... all the time... changes have to get captured every day. 700GB a day is a bit overstated... I went through our logs and we actually do about 600GB a day. Now I checked for the last month and somedays we did 1TB, others we did 300GB.

Now as far as the student's data... we gotta keep it all as long as 4 major terms past thier last enrollment. This hurts. It's just one big mass of uncoordintated stuff.

You make your backups... and I make mine... you live by yours... I live and die by mine. That is why I use TSM... you use DVDs.

Post #47,942 by deSitter 8/3/02 9:39:04 AM Reply	Well I'm Stunned What on Earth requires 260Gb of data? The entire text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is a summary of all human knowledge, can fit on one CD. On my machine I have almost 100 downloaded books (so far) and it barely makes a dent in my 40Gb drive - not to mention 100s of downloaded physics papers as PDFs, etc. etc. Have we lost track of what numbers mean? -drl
Post #48,010 by folkert 8/4/02 1:22:24 AM Reply	Re: Well I'm Stunned What on Earth requires 260Gb of data? The entire text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is a summary of all human knowledge, can fit on one CD. On my machine I have almost 100 downloaded books (so far) and it barely makes a dent in my 40Gb drive - not to mention 100s of downloaded physics papers as PDFs, etc. etc. Have we lost track of what numbers mean? Well, have you seen some of the ERP solutions these days??? All of the make-work people do... all of the DUPLICATION of data people do... How about the attitude... Use all you want we'll buy more! How about DB's that have 60GB Partitions... then the COPIES of the Prodution data in various stages of "patching"... oh BTW, did I mention PeopleSoft gives use 400MB of compressed patches a month per "system"... those systems being "Learning Solutions", "Human Management"(I htink that is it's real name) and "Business Services". Plus... we can't let the "Testing System" loose an data... think of all the "Hours" of testing and ad-hoc changes not yet captured... Just the COBOL Source for all 3 systems in 1200MB(uncompressed). More or less... everything is in a constant state of flux... all the time... changes have to get captured every day. 700GB a day is a bit overstated... I went through our logs and we actually do about 600GB a day. Now I checked for the last month and somedays we did 1TB, others we did 300GB. Now as far as the student's data... we gotta keep it all as long as 4 major terms past thier last enrollment. This hurts. It's just one big mass of uncoordintated stuff. You make your backups... and I make mine... you live by yours... I live and die by mine. That is why I use TSM... you use DVDs. `greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!`
Post #48,045 by deSitter 8/4/02 2:21:12 PM Reply	Re: Well I'm Stunned No, I still use tapes, but I manage what needs to be backed up every day. -drl
Post #48,064 by folkert 8/4/02 6:52:21 PM Reply	Management of backups.... TSM does all that for me... has save my butt NUMEROUS times... unfortunately (L)users tend to screw things up alot more than I'd like. I am talking about functional users too. So, I have to have automated backups managed and reclaimed automagically. `greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!`
Post #48,020 by static 8/4/02 8:10:06 AM Reply	A small bank's data warehouse can easily exceed 4Tb. That is the entire customer account database and transaction information for 12 months. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

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