From what I've read in the last few years ,almost any media you use
is going to fail or become obsolete and unreadable within a
surprisingly short period of time. Library of Congress and archives of
all kind, public and businesses around the world spend lots of money
and hours transferring vital data (and images) from one media to
another.
Acid free paper and microfilm seem to be the leaders in longevity and
readability so far. It's not just the media though. In the digital
world, operating systems, formatting of media and data change all the
time. To gather the data from my Apple ][ floppies, or even my
Apple /// 5 meg hard drive would require the original computers, or at
least something of that era. Got a 10.5" IBM floppy drive?
On Jan 1, 2009, at 14:37 , Luiz Felipe wrote:
A good friend is using external HDs as backup, plugged only to move
the content then stored, and that seems safer than DVDs. May be my
next step towards the mirror.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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