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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012. Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.

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The threat of civil war hangs over an isolated ficticious southeastern Oklahoma town.

Rantburg.com and Borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents Newtonville, his first, epic novel of love and betrayal set in the turbulent late 1960s. Click here to buy

132 Backups
2007-07-24
Posted by: badanov

At this point, Ted sunk into his chair and sighed. He quickly calculated that, for any given one-week period, there would have no less than sixteen copies of the entire database for any given night on any of sixteen tapes. Over the space of one week, there would be no less than one hundred and twelve complete backups of the database stored on tape, sixteen complete backup copies stored on disk, and four live copies on the four main servers. That came to a grand total of 132 copies of the database with data no more than one week old.

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