[TriLUG] OT: Low cost way to offline 3 Tb

[Brian Henning]

Nah, don't hexdump..  Use something a little more efficient, maybe
base-64?

But that raises an interesting question (to me, at least):  What would
be the mean error rate (and what sort of error correction measures might
need to be employed) for "saving" by printing to paper (in some
binary-encoding format such as the aforementioned base-64), and
"loading" via scanning + OCR?

Ah well, back to work.

~B


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Lambdin
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:31 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Low cost way to offline 3 Tb

hexdump it to a printer?  Type it back in if you really need it.

On 1/22/08, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good Morning List,
>
>   Does anyone have a suggestion for a low cost method of saving 3
> TeraBytes offline?
>
> Ebay a huge lot of 2 Gb thumb drives?
> A couple of cases of DVD blanks?
> Or 3 each 1 Tb hard drives/
>
> Any ideas out there in Trilug land?
>
> john mitchell
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