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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What is the largest file transfer you have ever done? (startrek.website)

submitted 3 months ago by data1701d@startrek.website to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet.

This has caused me to wonder what the largest storage operation you guys have done. I've taken a couple images of hard drives that were a single terabyte large, but I was wondering if the sysadmins among you have had to do something with e.g a giant RAID 10 array.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This was your local EPA? Do you mean at the state level (often referred to as "DEP")? Or is this the federal EPA?

Because that seems like quite the expense in 2000, and I can't imagine my state's DEP ever shelling out that kind of cash for it. Even nowadays.

Sounds cool though.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I think it was the EPA's National Compute Center. I'm guessing based on location though.