I have worked at a few companies where this was done. It was generally done for two purposes: 1. offsite archival storage and 2. a failsafe for disaster recovery. We also sent physical copies of data to other locations or partner companies when it would take longer than a day to do a transfer over the internet. It would take longer than a day to move many TB of data over the wire so FedEx has higher bandwidth delivery. It makes sense when you can't be messing around with slow and unreliable internet transfers.
I have worked at a few companies where this was done. It was generally done for two purposes: 1. offsite archival storage and 2. a failsafe for disaster recovery. We also sent physical copies of data to other locations or partner companies when it would take longer than a day to do a transfer over the internet. It would take longer than a day to move many TB of data over the wire so FedEx has higher bandwidth delivery. It makes sense when you can't be messing around with slow and unreliable internet transfers.
Ok, I guess in certain situations where the data doesn't change often but needs to be archived I can see why it would be done.
Ok, I guess in certain situations where the data doesn't change often but needs to be archived I can see why it would be done.
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