Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Self-similarity and heavy tails: structural modeling of network traffic
A practical guide to heavy tails
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
UNIX Backup and Recovery
Using Gigabit Ethernet to Backup Six Terabytes
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Systems Administration
Linked
On the theory of system administration
Science of Computer Programming
Analytical Network and System Administration: Managing Human-Computer Networks
Analytical Network and System Administration: Managing Human-Computer Networks
Configurable immunity for evolving human-computer systems
Science of Computer Programming - Methods of software design: Techniques and applications
The Amanda Network Backkup Manager
LISA '93 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on System administration
Burt: The Backup and Recovery Tool
LISA '99 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on System administration
(Awarded Best Theory Paper!) A Probabilistic Approach to Estimating Computer System Reliability
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
Further Torture: More Testing of Backup and Archive Programs
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Principles of Network and System Administration
Principles of Network and System Administration
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We discuss a simple model of disk backups and other maintenance processes that include change to computer data. We determine optimal strategies for scheduling such processes. A maximum entropy model of random change provides a simple and intuitive guide to the process of sector based disk change and leads to an easily computable optimum time for backup that is robust to changes in the model. We conclude with some theoretical considerations about strategies for organizing backup information.