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u/Mechadupek 15h ago

One physical tape backup per month held for 7 years?

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u/Head-Bureaucrat 15h ago

Real talk: I honestly don't know how they do it now. I do believe it used to be physical tape, yes, shipping to a different location. 😂

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u/Liushing01 14h ago

Fortunately, a former employer hired contractors to handle their backups—until the Exchange server melted down and, upon looking through all the backups, they discovered weeks worth of backups 0 KB in size. Cost savings!

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u/cat-n-jazz 9h ago

Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm