{"id":7262,"date":"2019-11-25T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:33:00","slug":"sneakernet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=7262","title":{"rendered":"Sneakernet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3 miles on the treadmill]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was thinking about data storage a few days ago and an old quote came back to me:  Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That and other interesting stories can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sneakernet\">wikipedia page for sneakernet<\/a>, the transfer of data by physically moving magnetic media from point A to point B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My old job has talked to me about doing some work for them, restoring a sampling of old backup tapes, sort out the contents and write the interesting stuff to removable HDD.  We have over 5 years of weekly backup tapes with about 1500 GBytes on each tape.  That tape cabinet holds (52 X 5 X 1500 =) 390,000 GBytes of data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  Fortunately a lot of it is repeated over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think our plan will be to take one tape from each month.  That&#8217;s still a hefty amount.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 3 miles on the treadmill] I was thinking about data storage a few days ago and an old quote came back to me: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes. That and other interesting stories can be found on the wikipedia page for sneakernet, the transfer of data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}