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| (...) Hmm, no tape drive or CDRW. How does off-site backup work---over the wires to Todd's office? I do hope that there is a backup outside of Boston. . . (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Nope, I hate tape backup (too slow, too small, too expensive, too unreliable) and CDR's are too small and too labor intensive. Of course, the lack of a CDRW drive doesn't preclude physical media backups from being carried out elsewhere. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Yes, no one there to change tapes or CDs. The data will be frequently synced to off-site locations -- not just Todd's place. (...) What, planning for a nuclear calamity are you? :) (But yeah, we'll have that.) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I agree completely on the utility of tape. Speed, size, cost, and reliability are always a problem; tape systems seem to always be a generation behind what disk drives need (and with the relative demand curves, they are not going to catch up). (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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