How Much Data Do You Have
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I just did this exercise when looking for new core infrastructure.
5.6 TB of actual production data with 3.6 TB in backups. This production data includes the data itself, along with the server and the program information as we backup the entire server, just like @BRRABill does.
Most essential data is little less than 1 TB. We have 1 TB of hosted cloud with our colo that is backed up to Virginia. This contains our file/DC server + connector for O365 and the SQL server for our ERP system.
We have about 500 employees across 2 production locations and 1 colocation (unmanned). Approximately 150 active users in AD. We are a butcher shop, essentially.
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@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
Since this is regarding business and not home - it's not important.
However in my case, the DVD / CDs are Movie / Music media. I could buy any of them again.
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@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
What kind of CDs do people need backups of in a business?
I'm sure Gene was talking about for home.
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@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@Dashrender said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@gjacobse said in How Much Data Do You Have:
If you discount backups of DVDs and CDs which could be created again, it is likely less then 500GB - made up of mainly photos from the cameras and iPhones.
Now this is an interesting thing - can they be done again? what if the original media is destroyed/damaged?
And is it really reasonable to do all that work again? The amount of time it takes to babysit while those are being ripped could easily be worth ensuring you don't have to do it again.
Since this is regarding business and not home - it's not important.
However in my case, the DVD / CDs are Movie / Music media. I could buy any of them again.
wow - that would be a lot of expense.
Instead of ripping them, I converted my collection to Vudu. No storage required. As long as they are in business, I have access to my collection.
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The systems I manage at work are roughly ~60GBs in backups of data only. That's ~39 servers. Most of them are really tiny. My biggest one is around 25GB.
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just finished to check out my company (30 ppl with pc, plus 20 in the warehouse). We have around 500GB of data excluding mail. Mail is a huge archive kept for both hystoric and legal reasons. This can go well over 500GB, but this is a static batch of data we do not change.
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Between everything, somewhere over 1PB. Not sure about the corporate data though.
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12GB of data, that includes hi res images, marketing, videos, a few key software installer packages, docs and manuals.
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All personal data including email is 6GB. The wife is a photographer so hers is in the 3-5 terabyte range, but I keep my stuff pretty streamlined.
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I'm still in the process of doing a Data audit, which includes:
- Production data totals (non-compressed, non-deduped)
- Data clean-up plan (what can go, duplicates, old and forgotten dupes, unneeded stuff)
- Data consumption rate (how fast is actual production data growing)
Rough estimate at this point is between 10 and 15 TB total. Estimated to be able to down it to under 8 TB raw. (may be wishful thinking, though)
EDIT: in addition to above storage:
- Office 365 email storage: 1.5 TB
- OneDrive: 125 GB
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Raw video: 2.5TB
DVD authoring files: 1TB
Office Data: 700MBEmail is hosted along with our VPS webserver, 50GB available to split between them.
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About 20 TB total
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@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
About 20 TB total
What kind of data?
Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on
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@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
About 20 TB total
What kind of data?
Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on
You take backups of security camera video?
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@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
About 20 TB total
What kind of data?
Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on
You take backups of security camera video?
It's body worn cameras for police
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@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
About 20 TB total
What kind of data?
Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on
You take backups of security camera video?
It's body worn cameras for police
And those are backed up?
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@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
About 20 TB total
What kind of data?
Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on
You take backups of security camera video?
It's body worn cameras for police
And those are backed up?
they have to be. they can be referred to for decades
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@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have:
@wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have:
About 20 TB total
What kind of data?
Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on
You take backups of security camera video?
It's body worn cameras for police
And those are backed up?
they have to be. they can be referred to for decades
Those two things are not related. Have to would be a compliance question. Being referred to for decades is about storage, probably archival, not backup.
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Grand total maybe 10TB
Non-video portion of that is maybe 1TB
