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Doing paper backups is hard I could not store much data on paper when I last tried with QR codes. You need to to multiple QR codes since they are only 2KB each.
by pastage 1y ago
Doing paper backups is hard I could not store much data on paper when I last tried with QR codes. You need to to multiple QR codes since they are only 2KB each. There are some threads about it on HN, but I have never seen anyone do megabytes per paper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792556
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149427
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24669425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24669425
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=paper+backup https://hn.algolia.com/?q=paper+backup
Cuneiform tables do it in clay.
- axiolite 1y agoPaperBack claims 0.5MB per page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883531 It's likely not possible to do much better. I never said that was the most practical method.