See my other reply. You make new backup copies as new media becomes
available. That is the reason for using a fileserver as your main
repository. Such a server is not necessarily that expensive. And older
computer that you may already have around the house, an IDE raid
controller, a couple of big hard drives, and a UPS. Network it to your
workstations and/or laptops and you are in business. The images are
there online and reasonably safe, at least far safer than if you just
have them on a USB drive. If new backup media becomes available you just
back up the whole image file to that and toss the DVD's. In the unlikely
case of both mirrored drives crashing at the same time you restore the
system from the backup media.
Anyone who thinks there is a once and forever computer archive scheme
out there is deluding themselves.
graywolf
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Jostein wrote:
Very interesting indeed. Long-life media is a good start.
If even the minimum estimate of 80 years holds, media lifetime will not be the
limiting factor.
Second question: Will there be any CD-R readers to go round in 80 years from
now?
Personal computers have been with us for 25 years, and we've already passed
through several generations of storage media that can no longer be read by
mainstream computers.
Jostein
Quoting Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This looks interesting:
http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=1641
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