Digital BW, The Print

The first post simply asked "how many REALLY do store digital copies
elsewhere?" ie how many people keep backups of their data at locations
different from where the originals are stored.  The question has nothing to
do with archiving but rather "backing up data".


> From: Peter Nelson <pnweb@studio-nelson.com>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:48:52 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: how many REALLY do store digital copies elsewhere
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels"
> <bob@b...> wrote:
>>  Except I swear by
>> external hard drives. When they're nearing the end of their
> technical
>> life cycle, you just copy the ENTIRE thing at one time over to
>> whatever media is being used in the future.
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> Who do you mean by "you"?
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> Almost everyone is thi discussion is overlooking the first poster's
> PREMISE:
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> He wants something to leave behind when he's gone so it will
> be "easy" for people in the future to see his images.
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> I'm saying that any solution requires that someone with technical
> skill have to actively convert his files on a regular basis to some
> new format (AND guess right about what the new format should be!)
> fails the "easy" test.   And what if that custodian huesses WRONG?
> Suppose ha had converted it to a Travan-3 tape or an Iomega Jazz
> drive?   The next person to inherit the data would have to go to a
> computer museum (or at least have nontrivial technical skill) to
> recover it.
> 
> Also N.B. that magnetic media such as tape, hard drives, floppies,
> etc, lose half their flux strength every 10 years, if they are stored
> under ideal conditions.   So it's not archival.  (from a published
> study by 3M)   
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