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by brianwski 15y ago
Yep, Apple solves this problem by using their "AppStore" application to reliably download the file in chunks (like you suggested). My complaint is that Apple should extend Safari to be able to download the OS X Lion download reliably. (Th
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by brianwski 15y ago
We're considering a PXE boot solution (among other solutions) just to keep all 200 pods (and growing!) updated to the latest Debian. But we also use the boot drive for a few other things like error logging and such. But the idea of elimin
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by brianwski 15y ago
(Backblaze founder speaking here) - I have always liked the CrashPlan company and they seem like a smart focused team with a solid product. And I've heard other reports that CrashPlan works well on Linux, so people should definitely check
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by brianwski 15y ago
Yikes, what? We all run Lion here at Backblaze and it works flawlessly for us, and our internal stats show THOUSANDS of Lion customers happily backing up. If you can provide more details of your setup we would LOVE to fix that for you. S
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by brianwski 15y ago
See my other post on this. It is extremely simple XML anybody would understand instantly. In fact, some people have already scripted changes to the XML files running on Mac to increase the "throttle" at night and decrease the "throttle" d
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by brianwski 15y ago
Earlier we were totally interested in ZFS, as it would replace RAID & LVM as well (and ZFS gets great reviews). But (to my understanding) native ZFS is not available on Linux and we're not really looking to switch to OpenSolaris. ANOTH
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by brianwski 15y ago
Honestly, the XML files are pretty simple. The one main one the GUI writes out is called bzinfo.xml and is found on any Mac system at /Library/Backblaze/bzdata/bzinfo.xml and on any Windows Vista or later system at C:\ProgramData\Backblaze
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by brianwski 15y ago
Anybody who builds their own pod is welcome to use RAID or not, and which RAID you choose will affect your final numbers. At Backblaze, we configure it as RAID 6 groups, each group is 15 drives which includes 2 parity drives. So you are d
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by brianwski 15y ago
I just asked, and found out we actually HAVE had a number of boot drives fail in our fleet of 200 pods. Most decisions in the pod are around saving money, so our initial thoughts were just that no customer data is on the boot drive so it i
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by brianwski 15y ago
Yes, the RAM is ECC. Here is a link: http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=CT25672B... The ECC RAM absolutely does find and corrects problems (we see them in the logs). However, just to be absolutely clear we would not nee
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by brianwski 15y ago
We would like to, we just haven't had time to get it done yet. It runs internally, but is lacking an installer and a GUI, and we would need to prioritize and choose one or more Linux distributions to launch with. Ubuntu is an obvious choi
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by brianwski 15y ago
At the lowest level there are three RAID groups in each pod. Each RAID group is made of 15 drives configured in software RAID 6 with 2 parity drives. This means you can lose 2 dives and the data is entirely safe and intact. If 3 or more