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Re: [LUG] hardware: server

 

On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:02, Simon Waters wrote:

1.2GB databases - oh what Oracle called "small" back in the 90's ;)

Does that include indexes?

Yes.  Currently is in XBase .dbf files with indexes very like Foxpro.

The whole lot plus some additional stuff compresses with bzip2 to 110 MBytes.
So 5 historical backups on one CD.

The letters, company business stuff and reference stuff are separate 
collections, and as we move more paper records into scanned images the volume 
of that is increasing steadily as well.

I _still_ don't like tapes.
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