Hacker News Reader

One factor in the cost of such an event is the effort required to restore from backups.

Sure, paper is a safe storage medium. But how would one restore from paper backups? Put that mountain of paper through scanners?

Doable, yes. But if it takes extreme amount of time and/or people power, then how useful are those backups, really?

I expect there are warehouses full of forgotten tapes and punchcards reminiscent of the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

>couple of locations

You would start by spreading rumors of impending coordinated multi prong attack at all storage facilities, simultaneously your inside man proposes relocating archives to a safe central location or just sending them all to a recovery facility.