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NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityDatabases & storageDistributed systems

What it is

A Google Tech Talk by Raymond Blum on how Google backs up massive amounts of data such as Gmail and Picasa. It covers scaling challenges, failure types, and approaches that did not work, including tape.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in backup and data-loss threads as a rare inside look at Google's backup practices, including its use of tape.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore”

    Talk with notes on how Google backs up

    carapace, 2019-09 · Recommendation · in “Game developer loses multiplayer service code”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: backups, site reliability, google, tape storage, data recovery

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