A fresh look at the reliability of long-term digital storage Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5030791, abstract = {Emerging Web services, such as email, photo sharing, and web site archives, must preserve large volumes of quickly accessible data indefinitely into the future. The costs of doing so often determine whether the service is economically viable. We make the case that these applications' demands on large scale storage systems over long time horizons require us to reevaluate traditional system designs. We examine threats to long-lived data from an end-to-end perspective, taking into account not just hardware and software faults but also faults due to humans and organizations. We present a simple model of long-term storage failures that helps us reason about various strategies for addressing some of these threats. Using this model we show that the most important strategies for increasing the reliability of long-term storage are detecting latent faults quickly, automating fault repair to make it cheaper and faster, and increasing the independence of data replicas.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Baker, Mary and Shah, Mehul and Rosenthal, David S. H. and Roussopoulos, Mema and Maniatis, Petros and Giuli, T. J. and Bungale, Prashanth}, booktitle = {EuroSys '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006}, citeulike-article-id = {5030791}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1217935.1217957}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1217935.1217957}, doi = {10.1145/1217935.1217957}, isbn = {1-59593-322-0}, keywords = {dight-eurosys, dight-storage}, location = {Leuven, Belgium}, pages = {221--234}, posted-at = {2009-07-01 08:16:14}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A fresh look at the reliability of long-term digital storage}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1217935.1217957}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5030791 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5030791 N2 - Emerging Web services, such as email, photo sharing, and web site archives, must preserve large volumes of quickly accessible data indefinitely into the future. The costs of doing so often determine whether the service is economically viable. We make the case that these applications' demands on large scale storage systems over long time horizons require us to reevaluate traditional system designs. We examine threats to long-lived data from an end-to-end perspective, taking into account not just hardware and software faults but also faults due to humans and organizations. We present a simple model of long-term storage failures that helps us reason about various strategies for addressing some of these threats. Using this model we show that the most important strategies for increasing the reliability of long-term storage are detecting latent faults quickly, automating fault repair to make it cheaper and faster, and increasing the independence of data replicas. CY - Leuven, Belgium SN - 1-59593-322-0 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 234 TI - A fresh look at the reliability of long-term digital storage PB - ACM T2 - EuroSys '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006 SP - 221 KW - dight-eurosys KW - dight-storage AU - Baker, Mary AU - Shah, Mehul AU - Rosenthal, David AU - Roussopoulos, Mema AU - Maniatis, Petros AU - Giuli, TJ AU - Bungale, Prashanth PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1217935.1217957 ER -