That's HEAVY.
There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
In Mother Russia, the mutants are Humans.
Goes to show how long it's been since this meme was funny when it gets mangled this badly.
"In Soviet Russia, road forks you!"
It's simple, the backups are compressed -- they simply remove all those useless zeroes from the binary data.
We should back up the digits 1 and 0 too, just to be safe. In the event of a fire, we want to be able to reconstruct the data, and what will we do if all the 1's get damaged? We'll also have a handy comparison for the 0, so we can insert it back without too much effort when we un-compress the data.
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"