scott wrote:
>> Question: How much does an 80GB HD cost? How much does having 35 
>> scientists standing around unable to do any work cost?
>>
>> Is it just me??
> 
> No, we had the same here.  Our department got an email from the IT guys 
> telling us we'd used up another *10GB* in the last month and this 
> couldn't go on.  (Actually after they send out such emails it seems the 
> free space actually goes *down*, I can't imagine why).  After much 
> discussion it turns out that actually the problem is the nightly backup 
> is sometimes not finished by the morning, not the lack of disc space.  
> Now they are considering backing up on to external USB hard drives.  It 
> is really not very organised, they seem to have no real plan how to 
> scale up their backup system in the future as inevitably everyone 
> generates more data.

Well, I don't know, saying "hey, we're getting near the limit here" 
seems more pro-active than just waking up one morning and finding that 
everything has come to a halt.

Also, adding backup capacity *is* more tricky than just adding more disk 
space.

I wouldn't mind, but I know the UK site generates about 700KB of redo 
logs per day. I don't know what the other sites generate, but it's got 
to me *a lot* of traffic for the server to fill up this fast. Either 
that or the server is _absurdly_ under-provisioned...

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