http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/screw-the-mirrors/ another update (talks about backup strategies in place), should also have been linked from the original article.
Oh, and reading those blog posts isn't enough, UNDERSTANDING them is important (I didn't).
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Originally posted by birdie View PostI've read both - they didn't have proper backups. Period.
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: KDE Almost Lost All Of Their Git Repositories
There was almost "The Great KDE Disaster Of 2013" when the KDE project almost lost all of their 1,500+ Git repositories...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMzNTc
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Originally posted by birdie View PostThe real problem KDE sysadms overlooked is that mirroring is not backing up. ZFS wouldn't have saved them if their HDDs totally failed - ZFS is good at spotting hardware errors - that's true. But ZFS is not a magic bullet.
ZFS is not a replacement for proper backups, but it makes doing them easier. End-to-end checksumming and self-healing would have prevented this mess before it happened had ZFS been deployed.Last edited by ryao; 25 March 2013, 02:44 PM.
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Originally posted by ryao View PostThis is the silent corruption that ZFS was created to prevent. Unfortunately, KDE's servers were not using it.
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This is the silent corruption that ZFS was created to prevent. Unfortunately, KDE's servers were not using it.
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Go suck horse cocks with your mother, birdie!
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL PLEASE
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Poor funkSTAR
Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: KDE Almost Lost All Of Their Git Repositories
There was almost "The Great KDE Disaster Of 2013" when the KDE project almost lost all of their 1,500+ Git repositories...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMzNTc
Actually, while it would have been a huge PITA, there are enough out-of-repository copies of the source floating around so that I'm sure they could have rebuilt the repos to at least the last-released state of the code base. Still not good, but not lost forever either.
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