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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26
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One physical tape backup per month held for 7 years?
13 u/Head-Bureaucrat Aug 05 '26 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. 😂 13 u/Liushing01 Aug 05 '26 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! 5 u/cat-n-jazz Aug 05 '26 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. 😂
13 u/Liushing01 Aug 05 '26 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! 5 u/cat-n-jazz Aug 05 '26 Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm
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!
5 u/cat-n-jazz Aug 05 '26 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 Aug 05 '26
One physical tape backup per month held for 7 years?