On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:37:06PM -0600, Jacob Biesinger wrote: > > I keep those on DVD-R's, encrypted, and locked up. If you managed to > > get to those, I'd be pretty impressed. ;-) > > How long do those last? My aunt was asking me earlier about how > long various forms of disks will last- she's putting a bunch of > geneology stuff on CD and is worried that it won't be around in 3-10 > years.
She should be keeping at least two copies, preferably on a different
brand of media burned by a different CD-R drives. Store upright in a
cool, dry environment. In 10 years, she can transfer the whole
collection to her 12 terrabyte IBM wireless OptiCube-RW device (no,
that's not a promise by any stretch of the imagination ;-).
One neat project for LDSOSS would be to make it trivial to burn a
scaled-down Knoppix-based distro onto the discs along with the data,
so you have everything you need in terms of software to access the
data.
Mike
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