Backups - was Re: 8mm data cartridges

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue May 8 12:48:27 CDT 2007


Mr Ian Primus wrote:
> If the data is _really_ crucial, consider punching it
> into tape. Unlike cards, tape can't get dropped and
> knocked out of order. It's slow to punch and read
> though, so I simply rigged my TeleType to run at 19200
> baud. Hold on, the chad box is on fire again...

10GB is a lot of punched tape.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar


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