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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The kind of place where "backups" means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you're lucky.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it was all tapes. We only had to use them once when I worked there: after finding out the UPS connected to the mainframe was a dud. And then it really was roulette because the first two tapes were unreadable, so we ended up with three week old data.