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[Kevin Cozens]

On 2023-11-08 10:12, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> It does depend on how much you have to recover.
> I have clients whose data sets take weeks to months to copy over multi 
> gigabit links.

Not too long ago I had to move a database to a new server. A couple of TBs 
needed to be moved. Both machines were part of the same network but it still 
took the better part of a week to copy the data to the new box and get it up 
and running with the copied data.

> They did have a verify step in the process where they read the data after it 
> was written but they only verified that the checksums matched the data.
> Fortunately this was found by a customer and none of the financial 
> institutions involved had a bad day.

Lucky that someone noticed in time to correct the issue. I wonder how a 
customer was the one to notice it rather than the people doing the data 
recovery.

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