Re: Favorite Tom Lane quotes

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 00:37 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
>> Tom on things that might ruin his tape backups:
>>
>> "Then of course there are the *other* risks, such as the place burning to
>> the ground, or getting drowned by a break in the city reservoir that's a
>> couple hundred yards up the hill...Or maybe being burgled by Oracle
>> employees who are specifically after my backup tapes."
>
> What is a tape?

Apparently something to do with backups.  But I don't know what those
are either... :-P