* Posts by Istari

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Spinning rust and tape are DEAD. The future's flash, cache and cloud

Istari

Re: SAM-QFS

The thing is, what's the SLA you have to meet in the event of a DR? Glacier is, somewhat er, glacial. Folks used to complain about access speeds, now LTO et al, are PDQ, so having made that gain, some folks may buy into the hype and shoot their DR in the foot while they're at it. While the cloud (and low-bandwidth deduped replication for that matter) may be OK for trickling backups to over time, it utterly sucks in the event of a DR when you need all that data back faster than the boss can dial your phone.

Cloud DR is a recovery process with a prostate problem.