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VTL has been around since the 90’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_tape_library.

This is a fantastic example of how broken the patent system is.

This is not an invention it’s a good implementation of a well understood problem.

It is also priced ridiculously - it is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than operating a physical library and remote physical storage that is beyond cyber threat by virtue of it being disconnected.

A real backup is offline and offsite.



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