List,
I apologize in advance for my long posting
Several weeks ago I posted what were my attempts to save data and my school-of
hard-knocks learning curve. Unfortunately several posters just had to nit-pick
the process I had used and started a long series of posts and counter-posts
about the
Seems to me there's at least three things going on.
1. People need meaningful work. It is more satisfying to re-invent
from ignorance than to learn that something has been done several
times before. Either way, the effect on the orbits of stars is
not measurable. It only matters to a human.
2.
Brooke,
I disagree. Hard drive sizes have done nothing but soar over the last
30 years. So, even if you have to replace them every 10 years, you
only have to buy 1/10th the number of drives every decade.
This is exactly my data retention strategy. Every time I get a new
computer, I copy my
You are 100% correct that no digital media is archival and all of it
will fail or there will be no machine that can read it. Certainly
everything we have will be junk in 100 years. But digital data is
not the same as digital media. Data can be perfectly copied. We can
make many copies. For
Well, Perry, you were right. The thread has drifted into technology
when the real challenge is the catalog for all that has gone before.
But perhaps that is not within this group's charter.
History Channel did a reasonable presentation of the Knights Templar,
within their tabloid guidelines,
