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the Torvaldian distributed backup policy being better than the BBC Archive's own



What backup policy? Even now there are loads of archive material being junked. Telly centre now only has 2 quadruplex machines left to service all the archive material still on 2 inch. We could get to a point where we have rapidly decaying material with no reliable way of retrieving it. I can see now why Granada are taking such good care of its 1 and 2 inch machines.
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Andy M