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- From: twl10@ccc.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
- Message-ID: <85bc02vA2fLn01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 19:29:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.161430.1109@cc.ic.ac.uk> <310O02zL2fMj01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <herman.724556613@phage> <1992Dec18.135223.13277@bilver.uucp>
- Reply-To: twl10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Dec18.135223.13277@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- >In article <herman.724556613@phage> herman@nosc.mil (John W. Herman) writes:
- >>twl10@ccc.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1992Dec16.161430.1109@cc.ic.ac.uk> cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk writes:
- >>>>In article <ericw.724459057@hobbes>, ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa) writes:
- >
- >>>>- The subject says it all. "How do you back up a terabyte?"
- >
- >>>>With great care.
- >
- >>Paper tape. There is a company which advertizes the ability to back up
- >>1 terabyte to a paper tape real. Honest
- >
- >Not really a paper tape - the nickname is digital paper. It's
- >a magneto-optical process
-
- Watch the attributions, please. There are no words of mine in the above.
-
- If you've got a terabyte of data and you need to be sure it's safe, I for
- one would never suggest a bleeding-edge technology. I don't mean to say it
- isn't good or isn't safe, just that I don't think it's proven itself yet.
-
- This opinion is purely personal; I don't know what the corporate position is.
-
- Tom
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