5 Nov
2013
5 Nov
'13
8:48 p.m.
On 11/5/2013 12:41 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
We have a*bunch* of d/bs. Oracle. MySQL. Postgresql. All with about a week's dumps from every night, and then backups of them to the b/u servers. I can't imagine how they'd be a win - don't remember just off the top of my head if they're compressed or not.
A*lot* of our data is not huge text files - lots and lots of pure datafiles, output from things like Matlab, R, and some local programs, like the one for modeling protein folding.
lots of binary data files are full of zeros and/ore repetitive patterns that compress quite easily.
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