Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'
Data centers run regular backups. The more data they store the more energy it takes to maintain it.
Data centers are almost certainly going to be using partial/diff backups. Changes are what incur most cost.
Infinite@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Data centers are almost certainly going to be using partial/diff backups. Changes are what incur most cost.