[arachne] Re: Backups (was Re: What is "cloud computing" ???
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:59:49 -0800
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Greg M.,
Re: Pyramid storage.....
And how long would it take and
how many carvers to do a single
backup ?? And how much papyrus
would be needed to make printouts
of the characters for the carvers to
copy ?? <gggggg>
Eric
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:39 +0930 "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:13:51 -0800, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
>
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> > Greg M.,
> > I'd hate to have to backup
> > a 60 GB HDD with punch cards !!
>
> Yes indeed <GGGG>
>
> But the hard facts are that the most durable forms of storage of
> data
> are the ones with the lowest density.
>
> For example, characters carved into stone where each character
> occupies
> several square inches can last for millenia.
>
> OTOH, you'd need a storage space bigger than the Great Pyramid to
> store
> 60 Gb of data at that density <GGGGG>
>
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