Everyone thinks of super-fast optical fibres as being the best way to transfer data from one location to another. Big organisations generate a lot of data, and in the case of one that I know, 1 terabyte is gathered every day. It was expensive to gather that data and it is important that it is not lost, so a backup copy is kept on another site 10km away.
How is the data sent?
By motorbike courier on a backup tape!
Who would have thought that the fastest way to transfer data would be by motorbike?
Small note: OK, it probably takes a long time to write the data onto the tape, and that should be taken into consideration, but that spoils the story a bit!
2 comments:
The only thing which surprises me is their choice of backup media.
What would you recommend John? It isn't my field of expertise, but I'm just interested.
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