I definitely remember the story – I seem to recall you dd a MOSES presentation
on “Bus Bandwidth”.
We did somewhat the same thing at WaMu when we moved a big “mainframe” app from
Seattle to Dallas; but, that involved a chartered jet and many boxes of tape
cartridges. In order to avoid Federal regs about encrypting data on backups,
the data had to remain in “bank custody” at all times, so two lucky IT guys
with “Vice President” titles (which made them “officers”) got to go along for
the ride.
Happy Holidays one and all!
Clay
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It must have been someone else then. It was reminder from Mike Prince to
carefully consider what you really needed and which would finish faster before
you dominated our two async 44 kbps modems between the Lebanon, NH IT shop and
the Burlington, NJ corporate headquarters and new data center. (Which also
meant baby-sitting them for restarts.)
Including the ride to the bus station in White River Junction before the
midnight bus and employee pick-up in Burlington, NJ in the morning overnight
was easy, and if you went early 6 AM to about 4 PM was possible.
Even one tape beat the async modem bandwidth, and if you sent a box full of
tapes you could send all the rev-1, production, and pending release code for
everything we had, with room for data to spare.
The concept is the same. Only the quantities have changed. Bandwidth, of
course, not to be confused with latency nor the urgency of, say, off site
copies of redo logs. Literally moving the storage farm is a story for another
day.
All the best and happy holidays!
mwf
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I don't recall that story, but I do remember a similar story on almost the same
route after skiing with high school buddies in my three-on-the-tree 1973 Dodge
van involving select holistic pharmaceuticals and 8-track tapes like "Robin
Trower: Bridge Of Sighs", "Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus", and "Rolling
Stones: Let It Bleed". It could be the same story, after being filtered by a
few tellings?
On 12/14/2020 8:18 AM, Mark W. Farnham wrote:
Is this related to not underestimating the bandwidth of a box of 9 track tapes
on a Greyhound bus from Lebanon, NH to Burlington, NJ?
(As I recall you also had a similar usage story circa 1989 or thereabouts)
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Not floppies, but several Azure Data Box
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will be used for this task, which should be a little faster than the two weeks
it would take to push 1.25 PB over a 10 Gbps network link.
However, since the customer has decided not to upgrade their 200 Mbps link to
10 Gbps, the Data Boxes should be much faster than the 652 days it would
otherwise to push that 1.25 PB.
Or so we hope...
On 12/12/2020 9:38 PM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
You can still export data to floppy disks and send them Microsoft by snail
mail. Neither sleet nor snow...
The only problem is where to buy floppies. I haven't seen them in stores for a
while now. I am preparing my own letter to Microsoft. I've been a good boy
throughout the year and I deserve some presents.
On 12/12/20 1:13 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Tim, et al,
Due to security, there was no way we were allowed a network connection between
current production and Azure.
