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- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.232752.10974@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: gigainches
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- References: <ericw.724459057@hobbes> <1992Dec16.161430.1109@cc.ic.ac.uk> <herman.724556613@phage>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:27:52 GMT
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- 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.
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- > Paper tape. There is a company which advertizes the ability to back up
- > 1 terabyte to a paper tape real. Honest
-
- Someone check me--that would be about a 100 giga-inch reel, no? About
- 1.6 million miles of paper tape?
-
- I don't mean to suggest that this is ridiculous; perhaps that company
- plans to start just _one_ such backup?
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-