We will start with a quick overview of the three categories of backups – fumble finger, Disaster Recovery, and archive. We will then look at the particular needs of each category of backup and why disk or tape might potentially be better or worse for each one. We will examine the relative costs-of-acquisition and costs-of-ownership. The talk will close with a very small degree of prognostication and a whole lot of rabble-rousing about the actual needs and reasons for backups/restores.

Lee Damon has a B.S. in Speech Communication from Oregon State University. He has been a UNIX system administrator since 1985 and has been active in SAGE (US) & LOPSA since their inceptions. He assisted in developing a mixed AIX/SunOS environment at IBM Watson Research and has developed mixed environments for Gulfstream Aerospace and QUALCOMM. He is currently leading the development effort for the Nikola project at the University of Washington Electrical Engineering department. Among other professional activities, he is a charter member of LOPSA and SAGE and past chair of the SAGE Ethics and Policies working groups, and he was the chair of LISA ’04 and co-chair of casitconf’11.

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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the
University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the
EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.

Data deduplication is a hot topic in storage and saves significant
disk space for many environments, with some trade offs. We’ll discuss
what deduplication is and where the Open Source solutions are versus
commercial offerings. Presentation will lean towards the practical –
where attendees can use it in their real world projects (what works,
what doesn’t, should you use in production, etcetera).

Specific implementations covered: LessFS, SDFS (OpenDedupe), BackupPC.

Nick Webb is the founder of Seattle, Washington based Red Wire
Services, LLC and has made a career of designing solutions that
improve data availability and enable disaster recovery. Nick brings
more than 10 years of experience planning, implementing and
maintaining best practice solutions for systems management for a wide
range of organizations. His firm, Red Wire Services, specializes in
preparing small businesses to survive technological disasters — while
also helping unprepared organizations recover their data and systems
so they can return to operation.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the
University of Idaho and is a certified LPIC-2 Advanced Linux
Professional. He has extensive experience in both Linux/UNIX and
Windows platforms working mostly as a professional system
administrator from 1999 to 2010.
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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the
University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the
EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.