On 31-Oct-08 13:13, Invisible wrote:

> The new global backup procedure that's being drafted will mean that 
> backup tapes are stored *forever*. (With the corresponding astronomical 
> increase in expenditure on new tapes and physical storage space. But 
> hey, it's not my money.)

As long as the amount of data your company produces increases less than 
the equivalent of moore's law for harddisk space (which I am pretty sure 
it does) the expenditure will exponentially go down in time.

I first used floppy disks then switched to CD copies of my data, then 
switched to DVD, now I simply buy a new harddisk. In the video about the 
economic crash they said somewhere that people simply don't understand 
exponential growth (IIRC), well they don't. Our 24 hour ECG (holter) 
system does not make backups. People accept that because it takes a 

we can not afford that, don't we? We have entered the era where storage 
of a full CT scan is cheaper than the lab results because the latter is 
on paper. If you still have copy machines at work, something has gone 
wrong (we have and it did).

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