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English translation: compress (data)

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Spanish term or phrase:	compactar
English translation:	compress (data)
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13:21 Oct 21, 2008

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Tech/Engineering - Computers: Systems, Networks / digital video storage

Spanish term or phrase: compactado

This term is commonly used in Spanish computing jargon to refer to the process of submitting digital contents (video, etc) to a robotic tape library for medium/long-term storage purposes (offline storage). I'm trying to find an equivalent word for 'compactado' in English.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance

izulaika KudoZ activity Questions: 2 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 9 Spain
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compression

Explanation:
Data compression makes sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression

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Note added at 40 mins (2008-10-21 14:01:56 GMT)
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I imagine they compress the data using one of the different compression methods (like fractal compression for video) before archiving it.

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compression

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tape archiving

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tape archiving

Explanation:
http://www.boogles.com/local/papers/tcfs-thesis/thesis.html
"Tape Archiving Using the Time Capsule File System"
http://www.eol.ucar.edu/~granger/spol-archiving/spol-archivi...
"Disk and Tape Archiving for SPOL"

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compression

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Language pair	English to Spanish => Spanish to English

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