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Current affiliations: Elnikety, Rice University; Birrell, Burrows, Isard: Microsoft Research.

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... daily²

Increased convenience encourages more frequent off-site backups.

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... erased.³

This assumes all blocks (of a block stripe) are written as a unit; we do not discuss the more complicated partial-write case in this paper.

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