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From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: On backups
Message-ID: <7415@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-May-87 17:11:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.7415
Posted: Fri May  8 17:11:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 21:07:52 EDT
References: <7295@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Summary: BIG tape

In article <7295@brl-adm.ARPA>, mike@BRL.ARPA (Mike Muuss) writes:
> For facilities like BRL with heavy scientific and engineering applications,
> it is not uncommon for a single scientist to produce 300+ Mbytes of
> "new" (different) data.  Each machine (even the aging VAXen) tends to
> have >2 Gbytes each, and we have serveral dozen machines.
> Your strategy, while nice, does not address this type of environment.
> 
I remember visiting Ft. Belvor a few years ago. They did backups on a really
BIG tape: 15,000 ft, 1 inch wide (these numbers may be wrong -- it was several
years ago). I wonder if these things exist outside of the military world?
It would be a useful tools like the above environment.
-- 
Dr. Mark J. Miller
NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC
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