Submission + - Avoid Holiday Camera-geddon: How to Keep Holiday Family Photos from Bringing Dow
And, come the first working day of the new year, they’ll all be backing up at once!
If you work in a large company with the backup solutions residing in the datacenter, you likely have experienced this phenomenon. It’s been described by some as “the worst day of the year for their infrastructure load.”
You know the painful process of trying to get the services up-and-running again after it crashes. You may find yourself struggling as the servers continue to crash as all those endpoints relentlessly try to shove photos of pets in Santa hats and bad Christmas sweaters through your precious network pipes and clog up the storage pools.
The authors have four suggestions for how sysadmins can avoid or minimize the damage, no matter what kind of backup system you use.