18:04 < ipfw> DataStream: what are a few good backup methods for Huge amounts
of data -- Terabytes worth ?
18:05 < ipfw> Other than tape, all I can think of is fat raid arrays
18:05 < DataStream> Yeah its pretty much tape or HD really
18:07 < insomnia> SAN
18:07 <@hile_> hey kate
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18:08 < ipfw> insomnia: SAN ? that like NAS ? :P
18:08 < DataStream> sorage area network
18:08 < DataStream> isnt it
18:08 < insomnia> storage area network
18:08 < ipfw> insomnia: SAN ? that like NAS ? :P
18:08 < DataStream> sorage area network
18:08 < DataStream> isnt it
18:08 < insomnia> storage area network
18:09 < insomnia> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAN
18:09 < ipfw> and that works how ?
18:09 < ipfw> ok reading
18:09 < DataStream> buy buying a million dollars sun machine :P
18:10 < DataStream> well sun HD arrays, huge things
18:10 < DataStream> insomnia: did you get a lacky to send that package? or
havent had time yet
18:11 < insomnia> not yet. heh!
18:11 < delewis> you really shouldn't use the term SAN in relation to a
particular device
18:11 < delewis> like a very large array of disks.
18:11 < delewis> rather, SAN is what the name implies, a network, using the
fibrechannel protocol.
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18:12 < DataStream> what a san is only fiber?
18:12 < delewis> no..
18:12 < DataStream> not scsi as well?
18:12 < DataStream> oh ok
18:12 < delewis> I said it uses the fibre-channel *protocol*
18:12 < delewis> ffs.
18:12 < DataStream> ok
18:12 < delewis> you can do fc-scsi encapsulation