[Pasig-discuss] Digital repository storage benchmarking

[Richard Wright]

Tim and all -- quite a few case studies in the presentations at this
conference from a few years ago:
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/storage14.html

On Fri, 12 May 2017 at 15:18 Tim Walsh <twalsh at cca.qc.ca> wrote:

> Dear PASIG,
>
> I am currently in the process of benchmarking digital repository storage
> setups with our Director of IT, and am having trouble finding very much
> information about other institutions’ configurations online. It’s very
> possible that this question has been asked before on-list, but I wasn’t
> able to find anything in the list archives.
>
> For context, we are a research museum with significant born-digital
> archival holdings preparing to manage about 200 TB of digital objects over
> the next 3 years, replicated several times on various media. The question
> is what precisely those “various media” will be. Currently, our plan is to
> store one copy on disk on-site, one copy on disk in a managed off-site
> facility, and a third copy on LTO sent to a third facility. Before we
> commit, we’d like to benchmark our plans against other institutions.
>
> I have been able to find information about the storage configurations for
> MoMA and the Computer History Museum (who each wrote blog posts or
> presented on this topic), but not very many others. So my questions are:
>
> * Could you point me to published/available resources outlining other
> institutions’ digital repository storage configurations?
> * Or, if you work at an institution, would you be willing to share the
> details of your configuration on- or off-list? (any information sent
> off-list will be kept strictly confidential)
>
> Helpful details would include: amount of digital objects being stored; how
> many copies of data are being stored; which copies are online, nearline, or
> offline; which media are being used for which copies; and what
> services/software applications are you using to manage the creation and
> maintainance of backups.
>
> Thank you!
> Tim
>
> - - -
>
> Tim Walsh
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> Archivist, Digital Archives
>
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