1) make high quality prints of the stuff you want to keep around
forever and put them into high quality storage binders.
2) digital images ...
As has been said many times before, the key to storage and archiving
of digital images is replication and maintenance, not permanence of
the media. Build a good archive schema and maintain it, migrate it to
new media as standards change.
Godfrey
On Apr 27, 2006, at 4:09 AM, Jostein wrote:
Dear gang,
I discovered the "need more storage" thread just now, by looking in
the
archives. Long term storage is a hot topic among my friends over here
at the moment, but nobody seems to have any "best practice" to point
to.
"Nobody" includes me too :-) but I would very much like to establish
a good practice for myself.
So by googling, and some thinking, I've come down to a list of
things to
consider. I'm not sure if this is a good list to go by, and would
very much
like to hear some opinions:
1. Longevity of storage medium (Hard-drive, DVD, etc.)
2. Longevity of the technology used to access the medium (USB,
SCSI, etc.)
3. Longevity of software support for the chosen file format (RAW,
TIFF, etc.)
Then there is:
4. Data safeguarding (backup routines etc.)
5. Data availability (access time to a file)
6. Production volume (number of exposures and edit-files)
7. Convenience
8. Cost (both time and money)
By any measure, a solution to cover all this points will be a trade-
off
between several of them. Convenience and longevity pull in the same
direction, for example, while cost pulls the other way.
So what do you think? And how do you store your precious moments?
Thanks for your thoughts,
Jostein
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