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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Backups Query
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 16:56:45 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  8 16:56:45 1987
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In article <106600008@datacube> berger@datacube.UUCP writes:
>Has anyone been doing work of using WORM optical disks for backup?

Biggest problem is speed (or lack thereof) when writing.  The
fastest ones I have seen (which is not necessarily) the same as
`the fastest ones that exist') would take three times as long to
write as our existing tapes.  No doubt this will change soon (or
has already).
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