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It would appear the Google backs up the internet on tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM Or at least d
by wglb 5y ago
It would appear the Google backs up the internet on tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
Or at least did at one time.
- fishnchips 5y agoIt probably still does. I was on the gTape SRE team until 2014 and we had lots and lots of tapes and tape libraries back then, most of them giant beasts with 8 robots each. With the capacity of new LTO generations constantly growing and the existing investment in hardware and software it would be unusual to discard that.
- wglb 5y agoOne thing that I found very useful (not to forget the use of RAID on tape!) was the way to delete an entire user's data was to encrypt everything with a per-user key, and upon request to delete, the key would be securely destroyed.
- fishnchips 5y agoAh yes, it's a standard practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding