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user-inactivated  ·  2671 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Amazon has trucks full of hard drives that move massive data stores via road.

We back up EVERYTHING to tape and those tapes go to an underground bunker. Turns out it is faster and cheaper still to use tape as an offsite backup.