Since we were talking about how much storage is available these days: http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php For a backup just mirror to a number of similiar clusters offsite. Large Scale Data Repository: Petabox OVERVIEW The petabox by the Internet Archive is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes). The goals-- and current design points are: * Low power-- 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system * High density-- 100 Terabytes per rack * Local computing to process the data-- 800 low-end PC's * Multi-OS possible, linux standard * Colocation friendly-- requires our own rack to get 100TB/rack, or 50TB in a * standard rack * Shipping container friendly-- Able to be run in a 20' by 8' by 8' shipping * container * Easy Maintenance-- one system administrator per petabyte * Software to automate mirroring with itself * Inexpensive design * Inexpensive storage PILOT STATUS 5/2004 * The first 100TB Rack is up and running! * The second 100TB Rack will be up by the end of May * Thermal Targets have been met * Systems Bootstrapped from USB Flash Device * Reiser FS running * PC-based Router running AVAILABILITY For more details, please contact: info@capricorn-tech.com -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]