[H-GEN] CDs vs tapes [was: Assistance Required]

[Robert Brockway]

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On 30 Mar 2002, Jason Henry Parker wrote:

> > [1] Actually the worst case is that the office & all servers are gone and
> > all you have is insurance money to buy new gear and some tapes to 
> > restore data from. [2]
> > 
> > [2] Come to think of it, the worst case scenario is _not_ having insurance
> > money to buy new servers, but that is a different topic.
> 
> Well, no, *worst* case is you have no backups, either.

I was making it conditional on a backup having been made, but yes, that is
the worst :) 

> > The longevity (or rather lack of longevity) of just about every storage
> > medium we currently use is raising questions about how much of our media
> > will survive 100 years,
> 
> One hundred years!?  Don't make me laugh.  The only way I'm aware of

Not so long ago people were surmising that data would live for hundreds
of years - but then they woke up :)  Scary eh.

> to *guarantee* data will last 100 years is to write.  it.  down.  On
> paper.  (Or *perhaps* you could stamp it into gold leaf.  Hmm.)

Stamp it on the gold leaf in binary.  Interesting idea.
Rob

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