[Dclug] Copying large number of files

[Alan McConnell]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:56:15PM -0500, Jesse Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 15:47, Alan McConnell <alan at patriot.net> wrote:
> >        What is now a joke was reality twenty years ago.   There was a
> 
> It's still a reality now.  We've just added more zeros.
> 
> FedEx + Overnight shipping (10am delivery)  + 1TB drives + bubble wrap
>   ==  high bandwidth.
> 
> A few months back I got ~5TB of data this way, and sent them off again
> to someone else a day or so later.
	<LOL>  Good to know that "sneaker-net" still survives in some
	form.  But back in the days I was hustling tapes around GSFC
	I didn't have the Bulge(aka Surge Forward of the Stomach) that
	I do now<sob>.

	I don't think FedEx helps take off weight.<sob>

Alan

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