Em Thursday 25 October 2007 13:36:09 tfinneid(at)student(dot)matnat(dot)uio(dot)no escreveu:
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> Regarding dumps and restore; the system will always be offline during
> those operations and it will be so for several days, because a new project
> might start at another location in the world, so the travelling there
> takes time. In the mean time, all admin tasks can be performed without
> problems, even backup operations that take 3 days.
This sounds a lot like oil exploration... Data gathered from sensors is
usually a few TBs, explosions have definite intervals, interference between
sensors, etc.
Putting the data inside the DB fast is part of the solution, getting it out
fast to be processes / analyzed is another part.
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Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com>