[PLUG] Back Up Medium - Only 1 is 100% Reliable in 20 Years

[Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

All the chatter about backups reminds me of a truism in the computer world.


What media do you use to back-up data that is 100% guaranteed to be 
machine readable in 20 years, no matter what the type of data you need 
to save?  [The data can be numeric, photographs, videos, etc, etc,]

The answer is not floppies, tape, HDDs, SDDs, the cloud, or USB drives.  
The answer is PAPER.

As long as a human being is capable of reading data on a piece of paper, 
a computer in 2043 will have no trouble reading it either. [ Gutenberg 
is feeling a little smug right now :) ]

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