The tricky part is that usually, one reason companies use backup tapes is the ability to archive backup tapes off-site for extended periods of time.

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In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down.

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Through acquisition, Dell built up an arsenal of storage products and technologies from leading edge disk storage brands (Compellent and EqualLogic) to backup (AppAssure and Quest), archive (Exanet), and deduplication (Ocarina), spending billions along the way.

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After you configure your backup, Google zips your data into an archive that you can download and store on a hard disk under your bed or in a bank vault in Geneva.

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