On 09.02.2003 23:17 Uhr, Carlberg Jones wrote > At 11:03 PM +0100 2/9/03, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> Well, yes, but even if you backed up your stuff fifteen years ago with the >> complete application with it, chances are _very_ high that you won't be able >> to find a machine easily that will read you 5 1/4 floppy disk, let alone run >> the application. I would expect the same will be true in another fifteen >> years, don't you? > > Hi, Johannes - > > Are you recommending that backups be made more often than every fifteen years? > > I backed up first onto cassette tapes, then onto 400k floppies, then 800k, > 1440k, then to another hard drive, and now to CD's. More than once every > fifteen years. > > Thank you for pointing out the need for backups on current media.
Well, I was replying to the idea that backing up PDFs on CD along with an Acrobat Reader application may not be the answer to long term storage of music. We were not talking about backups of our daily work, but of longterm archival of music or text documents using digital media. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
