Data back up problems? It could be worse!

The Google CEO Eric Schmidt released an interesting fact yesterday.

Every 2 days, Google generates approximately 5 exabytes of data!!

1 exabyte (EB) = 1 quintillion bytes

(quintillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 10006 = 1018)

or, for the non techies, great quote from Eric Schmidt:
"Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003"

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/

How on earth do Google backup and synch all that data across their datacentres! Imagine having to do a restore

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Still didn't mean too much until I related it to gigabyte and terabytes...

So 1 exabyte (EB) = 1 billion gigabytes = 1 million terabytes

...as suspected, a lot!!

Thank you Wikipedia.

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It's a bit scary though just how much data google has on everyone of us..

If Terminator were to come true Google would be Skynet, soon it will become self aware !!

Phil

Thats a lot of data, now long is it kept for, I assume that they must have a rolling back up system that reuses the old storage, or do they use a special storage media?

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