Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Quite a while back, I had to migrate a few terabytes of data from one machine to another. Not that special a task, and certainly a few terabytes is not that much but at the time it was a reasonable amount and even over 1Gbps network it can take some time. Fortunately it was not time critical and I could take the server in question down for a while to facilitate the migration. The data in question…