| Matt Berlin via plug on 1 Jun 2023 08:20:49 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Back Up Medium - Only 1 is 100% Reliable in 20 Years |
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. > > -- > Rich > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Matthew Berlin matt@psofe.com 553 Noble Road Atglen, PA 19310 (484) 832-1055 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug