Re: Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead!
From: onedbguru <onedbguru_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:38:29 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a8a3c47e-4b57-42a5-8fac-60fc9240b2b4_at_d10g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 28, 6:15 pm, Noons <wizofo..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 4:19 am, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe I'm old fashioned, but somehow deduping backups strikes me as
> > insanely stupid.http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/whitepaper/Business-Intelligence/Dat...
>
> Oh man! I had someone from EMC tell me that I had to uncompress my
> rman backups so their dedupe nonsense could handle the files.
> According to their "expert", dedupe of 1TB every night across the
> network is faster and safer than simply backing up 100GB compressed
> every night and throwing the weeklies away at the end of the month.
> I told him something along the lines of "in a pig's arse I'll
> uncompress my backups!" and it worked. So far. I'm sure they'll come
> back to harass me in 2012. Ah well: I'll just have to use a bigger
> stick...
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:38:29 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a8a3c47e-4b57-42a5-8fac-60fc9240b2b4_at_d10g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 28, 6:15 pm, Noons <wizofo..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 4:19 am, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe I'm old fashioned, but somehow deduping backups strikes me as
> > insanely stupid.http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/whitepaper/Business-Intelligence/Dat...
>
> Oh man! I had someone from EMC tell me that I had to uncompress my
> rman backups so their dedupe nonsense could handle the files.
> According to their "expert", dedupe of 1TB every night across the
> network is faster and safer than simply backing up 100GB compressed
> every night and throwing the weeklies away at the end of the month.
> I told him something along the lines of "in a pig's arse I'll
> uncompress my backups!" and it worked. So far. I'm sure they'll come
> back to harass me in 2012. Ah well: I'll just have to use a bigger
> stick...
Never been a fan of EMC at all... The old DEC (now HP) storage works
EVA series ran circles around it....
In the past I have been stuck waiting on SAN allocations because EMC
took 4 DAYS to merge in a new disk into a disk group due to disk
failure.
Received on Thu Dec 29 2011 - 15:38:29 CST