On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:56 PM Thomas Groman <tgrom.autom...@nuegia.net> wrote:
> Does anybody know of anybody whom I could rent a large (15TB) SSD or > tape drive from for a few days? I have a large amount of data I need to > backup while I reconfigure the topology of a raid array, and if I used > cloud storage it'd take me over a month to upload everything and > download everything back, Which isn't doable. On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:05:24PM -0400, Daniel Ortiz wrote: > The website may contain what you are looking for, but maybe it helps you. > https://www.leaseville.com/computers-tablets/computer-components/hard-drive.html?p=1 That's a cool website, worth considering in the future. Useful for "try before you buy", though the Samsung QVO on the first page reminds me that first impressions are poor indicators of long-term reliability. Another issue is "wipe after use". Large sophisticated storage systems swap replacement sectors - the QVO does this internally and frequently. The replaced sectors may no longer be evident, but they may retain most of the data written on them. What if that data is a copy of /etc/passwd? When you return your leased drives, wiped to the best of your ability, what might a clever future user extract from one of them? ---- However, the larger question about during-upgrade storage space is "where is the backup"? Redundant RAID protects against random hardware failure, but not "sudo rm -rf /<enter>", mistakenly typed when you had instead planned to type "sudo rm -rf /<right-shift-letter><letter>..." Before migrating stored data, I would make sure everything is backed up locally. I would test the backups, and use the migration to test the restore process. Rule #1: "If you don't have two copies, you will soon have zero copies". Given my frequent typing mistaeks, I aim for four copies, with one copy in a bank vault, miles away. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
