Le vendredi 28 octobre 2005 à 11:53 -0400, Chad Smith a écrit : > On 10/28/05, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Also vulnerable to catastrophic loss as in the libraries of Alexandria. > > Difficult to have a complete back up of all the paper and be sure it > > won't get destoyed by fire or flood. > > > But it's easy to do that to computers - right?
With computers you need multiples copies on several physically different sites and periodic checksum checks. IE "live" computer data, not something left to a degrading physical support. -- Nicolas Mailhot
