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Company Offers Disaster-Proof Storage For Records
Makarand writes "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that a Utah company,
Perpetual Storage, is
offering
disaster-proof commercial storage space
deep inside a granite mountain
for companies looking to store their most important records.
The company claims that their vaults are protected
and safe from "any force known to man", including a nuclear blast.
The vaults have gained popularity
recently after hospitals, government agencies and universities have started using them to keep
their computer records safe."
I can store my MP3s and backups of Deus Ex and all of my other favorite-but-discontinued games
what if the mountain collapses?
I'm sure after a nuclear blast my first thoughts will go to whether or not my files are safe. Since it'll get boring down in that fallout shelter, so I should read paperwork on now-dead customers and play old video games on my computer. Well, at least until the generator dies.
"What is Internet Explorer 7? Are you saying we can't access the normal internet?" - I love tech support. Really.
Like when the sun goes all red giant on us? How about a supernova or getting nailed by a decent sized black hole? What about gravitional collapse of the universe into a primeval atom?
That's all covered. Sue us, if we can't deliver... *smug grin*
My records are always getting melted by the sunshine.
Bitchslapped. Neat.
It's a mountain not a dormant volcano :)
Out of the area clients can use any available delivery service such as UPS, Fed Ex, or the US Mail.
For when your uber sensitive business data must get to the super secure storage facility safely... trust USPS and remember, pack well.
Personally, I'm waiting for the heat death of the Universe
Yeah, I had a coworker who did the same - all day long...
They have several vault sites where they keep the works of Elron Hubbard preserved. Quite elaborate and expensive. Seems redundant, you can find all the used copies of Dianetics and Battlefield Earth you could ever want at 2nd hand books stores.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
It's safe from any force known to man, yet here we go, slashdotting their server, making quick on-line retrieval of even the tiniest record impossible.
You could aways encode messages in your DNA.
Or even more sophisticated: you could encode your DNA in such a way that the message shows up as a tatoo on the buttoms of your descendants.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
They need to update their physics textbook. Modern forces at work include Bureaucracy, Incompetence and Government.
I'll bet any one of those three could breach this fortress ...
Am I the only one who thinks if we fall victim to nuclear blasts are car insurance records are the least of our worries?
Good ol' Americans. Always thinking with their greed, er lust for power, er... American dream...
one of us. one of us. one of us.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
My computerless life lasted for about 6 months and was, in general, a nice experience. Then I got a nice, silent computer with a flat screen.
Six months long you have been fallen deeper and deeper into a depression caused by computer deprivation. Vacantly staring into a real blue sky with some cumulus clowds on it, all day long... No Slashdot, no email. The isolation drove you mad and you started to fantasize about a perfect computer - silent and with a flat screen. Until you couldn't distinguish between reality and virtuality. Boy-o-boy-o-boy you really fucked up your mind. This message isn't real neither! There's nothing we can do for you anymore. Let this nut case be a warning for us all!
I keep all my vital info woven into posts, and hidden right here, its the only place I know that won't get ./'ed.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
"No city is impregnable into which an ass, laden with gold, can be led."
If the data was that important, I don't think I could trust anyone to hold on to it for me. For important things, I'd keep them in underwear, where no one would dare take it from. Emails, contact information, etc. No wait. The most important thing already IS in my underwear. =D
When testing, you should always mount a scratch mountain!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If you're worrying about your personal data when the sun blows up, you've got some serious problems..
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Naturally, this has been a great problem for my anscestors, with looters and archaeogists plundering our graves. First, we tried similar a similar long-term storage system in a huge man made stone polyhedron, but this was too conspicuous and attracted robbers. Then, we tried vaults hidden in a valley, but the robbers scoured the entire area, destroying the afterlife hopes for countless of my ancestors.
Maybe this system, at the center of a real mountain, perpetually guarded by corporate rent-a-cops, will finally ensure the endless afterlife that we strive for. I'm going to have them send me a brochure.
Opto-isolated power? How might this work?
Shine a bright light bulb towards a solar panel? It's probably easier to pay bubba to truck in diesel for a generator.
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As a system administrator I pay an arm and a leg to put my data inside a granite canyon so it can withstand any force known to man.
Then a big disaster happens and me and everyone in my company dies.
At that point our disaster recovery options are as follows:
1) an alien life form to arrive on earth, rescue the data from the inside of a granite canyon, and decide to stay and run our business
2) a primitive life form on earth that was strong enough to withstand the big natural disaster, evolves over millions of years, then rescues the data from the inside of the granite canyon and decides to run our business
Neither scenario seems likely. But to keep the CEO happy we should probably use those good quality HP LTO tapes to make sure the data is still around in a few million years.