[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Robert Citek]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at opengroupware.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 18:22 -0500, Robert Citek wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > a 500 GB 2.5" drive in a USB carrier is about $100 these days.
>>
>> Or if you want to go for the more industrial/geeky look, for that same
>> $100 you can get a 1TB drive ($80) and a SATA to USB dock ($20):
>
> *One* hard drive is a really terrible archival strategy,

*one* of anything is "bad" for archiving.  But that sisue has already
been addressed:

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at opengroupware.us> wrote:
> Hint: buy a second tape drive 5 years from now when that technology is
> much cheaper.  Or go crazy and buy two.

sed -e 's/tape/hard/'

Regards,
- Robert