Well, it's been an interesting discussion so far. It started out as to how to back up the Legacy family file and then the questions arose as to "where" to back up the files.
Seems clear to me that there should be at least 2 different geographic locations where the backups are held: one can be your own house and the second can be your relative's house which could be across town or across the country. Doesn't matter as long as it is not in the same location otherwise if your house burns down, all backups literally go up in flames. I think these generally suffice for what I call short-term storage, defining short-term to mean your own life span. When it comes to long-term storage, meaning something that your grandchildren will be able to access, the format of the media upon which the data is held seems to be of most importance. Note that even the LDS keeps their "master" storage as a physical "hardcopy" of microfilm. The do not rely solely on magnetically read media such as hard drives or DVDs. Maybe they're scared of the effects of EMP from a nuclear detonation or maybe they just know all these short term methods degrade from "bit rot", mostly likely effects of gamma rays and who knows what else. So, are we all storing our data just for "short-term"? Not discounting the chance of any type of global disaster in the next 100 years, doesn't it seem logical that the only SURE method of storage is actually a hardcopy of some type. I would assume this to be most likely a printed set of reports or even a bound manuscript or booklet. Hey, could even mean goatskins after all. Brian in California -----Original Message----- From: JLB [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Computer crashed - how do I move legacy to new computer? If there's no electricity we'll be too busy surviving to enjoy our present indulgence in what dead people did. But then of course there's FamilySearch with their indestructible mountain of microfilm so when we crawl out of the dirt we can start over. O, boy, I can see this thread going downhill from here ... let 'er rip. ----- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://jlog.jgen.ws/ On 3/26/2013 4:27 PM, Ron Walter wrote: > Ron > If the internet isn't available what makes you think that there will be > electricity? I suggest backing up to goatskins as the only safe alternative. > Ron Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
