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

On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 19:50:16 -0400
"Rich Mingin \(PLUG\) via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

> I use the Linus method. I upload everything I touch, and if it’s
> really important, Someone Else will take care of the backups.

As one of "those guys", although we're perfectly willing, I have to
admit it's difficult to get a hold of the right archivist to do a
restoration.

Plus even if you do there's a kind of bitrot with it.  For example,
while you'll get the general idea of a video when someone re-uploads
something to YouTube, you'll get different data like a watermark and
lossy transcoding.  

Never trust the mob for archiving.  Maybe there's something to do with
the tragedy of the commons; I don't know.

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