The Institute for Backup Trauma 211
fief writes "John Cleese explains why tape based backup solutions will drive a manager insane in a viral marketing bit for Live Vault. (flash required) Produced by the Captains of Industry. Links provided via AdRants" Barely an ad, mostly just hilarious. Also contains Michael Dorn. Use as directed.
Mentioned in the LangaList (Score:2, Informative)
It's probably safe to say I'll remember them, so from a marketing point of view it would be a success.
Re:Institute for /. server trauma... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:On broadband connection, still too big (Score:3, Informative)
Mind you, you are probably right about the file being too big. If it weren't that big, the server might not have been overwhelmed.
Re:The real trauma. . . (Score:4, Informative)
Re:And now for something completely crappy (Score:2, Informative)
It wasn't flat writing, you just didn't get the joke.
Lies! (Score:1, Informative)
By our powers combined... [Re:Institute ] (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.backuptrauma.com.nyud.net:8090/video/F
Direct Link Mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Re:*sigh* (Score:5, Informative)
FLV is essentially MPEG-4 in a flash container, and the flash controls offer no signifigant overhead, so offering a "downloadable" version wouldn't even give you any real difference in terms of download size.
Re:For your convenience (Score:4, Informative)
Re:How the hell did they get (Score:5, Informative)
Worked for me (Score:5, Informative)
I put in new drives and restored from the previous Friday's tape. One guy had done some work on Saturday, which he lost, but everything else was perfect. Numerous times I've gone back to a tape from months previously (grandfather-father-son scheme) to get one or two files, and I've never had one failure. So personally, I'm a big believer in tapes.
Computer Associates and LiveVault (Score:2, Informative)
No offense, but where did you get that idea?
Re:*sigh* SOLVED (Score:2, Informative)
Now I'm on windows, but I use firefox so we should have a base to work with.
if you go to the address bar and type "about:cache" AFTER you've visted the site with the flash movie, it will show up in your cache index.
I've tried it, and not only did I find the SWF, but firefox also cached the link to the FLV file.
Typing in the FLV or trying to "save as" didn't work initially, so I created a simple html doc with 1 href to the link, and now I'm downloading the 26 meg FLV.
Ah look, it's done. Cheers
TIP: If you see "LVCleese_LG.flv" you're on the right track.
Re:Tape is better than disk.... (Score:4, Informative)
When you "take out" a HDD by electric shock, you need to replace a component on it to get it working again. When you "take out" a tape by electric shock, the data is gone, and you might not be able to use the tape ever again. Tapes really should be enclosed in metal casings like drives are...
No, no, that is only the online life expectancy. Try re-writing a tape constantly for 5 years straight and see how long it lasts. If you store a hard drive like you store a tape, it can last a very long time.
If you keep them online, the lifetime of an individual drive doesn't matter one damn bit, because when one goes bad, you swap it out, data is restored, and there's no problem... When an important tape goes bad, you're not in good shape.
Hard drives are MUCH easier to check for problems (even if normally offline) which would alert you to data-loss much sooner.
The biggest thing hard drives have going for them, IMHO, is price. No need to buy a $30000 drive, and the per-GB cost of hard drives is close to tape as well.