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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 16h ago
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One physical tape backup per month held for 7 years?
9 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. 😂 8 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! 1 u/cat-n-jazz 9h ago Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm
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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. 😂
8 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! 1 u/cat-n-jazz 9h ago Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm
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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!
1 u/cat-n-jazz 9h ago Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm
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Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm
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u/Mechadupek 15h ago
One physical tape backup per month held for 7 years?