On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:36:03AM -0500, W S wrote:
> I have boxes of old tapes in the basement. How long will you be
> able to read those tapes? or the DVD, or CD?
Probably decades, unless you're unlucky - which you might be, so best to use
multiple media.
I back up to DVD each time I hit 4+GB, and also to a pair of duplicate DLTs
each time I hit 40GB that hasn't been run to tape yet (which happens every few
months now that I also shoot video). And I keep it all online of course. As
long as it's kept online, which there's no reason not to these days, it's easy
to back the whole of it up to each new medium as it comes along (I imagine I'll
be using BD within a year or two).
John
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