OFF: Online backups (was: Re: HW: Alien Autopsy)

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Jerry G wrote:

>  You had an Altair? I had to type all mine in on an IBM 029. I'd love to go with
> LTO-4 if the prices weren't so high. I wish their average life expectancy was a
> little higher as well. It'd be nice if there was an affordable holographic storage
> that would hold a few petabytes, have unlimited writes, and lasted a few centuries.

 	By a strange coincidence, someone else pointed me at this: it's a 
long way off what you're asking for, except in the last specification, but 
the problem is being worked on:

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=8473

Yours,
 	Jon

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