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

[Matt Berlin via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

These discussions always make me think of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_storage

- Matt

On 6/1/23, Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:50 AM Syeed Ali via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 06:40:00 -0400
>> Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> paper bitrot is the worst.
>
> Pretty sure the per-TB marginal cost is pretty astronomical as well.
> It would be cheaper to just stock a museum full of tape drives just in
> case.
>
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> Rich
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