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by beh9540 2177 days ago
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has experienced this. Only thing I'd add is the lack of understanding about how hard backups are at some of the scales of data in research. Trying to explain to researchers who run the departments that doing a full backup on 35TB+ of data on all budget drives is going to take weeks was something I could never get across, until they lost all their data.

And no, snapshots weren't an option on a legacy clustered filesystem that they wouldn't migrate from.

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But that is only like 3x 12TB USB drives.. </sarcasm>