Digital BW, The Print

If you really want to keep you data for a long time you need to have a 
least two copies in different locations and you need to rotate the 
media every now and then (replace the harddrives and rewrite new copies 
of CD/DVDs). Offsite is a hassle and I found myself not doing it as 
often as I should so I subscribed to www.livevault.com which was 
purchased by Iron Mountain. It is expensive so I only use it for my 
more critical data. As long as they don't go out of business the day my 
server with RAID gets stolen or fried by lightening, I will probably be 
ok since they are only keeping one copy of my data. They keep copies up 
to a couple weeks old so if I need a version of a file from last week I 
can instantly download it via the web. 

Cheers, Mark
http://www.pbase.com/lila161
http://www.framedestination.com/

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis W. 
Manasco" <dmanasco@...> wrote:
>
> 
> At 1:22 AM -0700 8/5/07, Chris Wong wrote:
> 
> >Or archive with one of the many online archive services. Then, you
> >don't have to deal with the slow and cumbersome CD/DVD media.
> _If_ you believe your online "archive service" will remain in 
> business indefinitely.
> But:
> 
> You _do_ have to worry about whether your "online archive service" 
> will be in business five years from now.
> 
> And where their servers' hard disks will wind up after the inevitable 
> bankruptcy.