Re: Good cloning Vs. System Restore

["Paul Breeze" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC)]

Dear Kari

No doubt you have already thought of this, but if not ... I made hard
disk images of all my floppies several years ago (5.25 and 3.5) and now
simply load an image into piece a of software called virtual floppy
drive if needed. You still have to protect the copies but at least they
might outlive your physical drives. I have all my XY software archived
in this way.


Best wishes

Paul

On 04/12/2015 19:44, Kari Eveli wrote:
> Interesting development, indeed. I still have a cardboard box full of
>  5.25" floppies, most of them readable, I guess. But when my floppy
> drive gathers too much dust and dies, what am I to do? And what
> happens when future generations want to procure blu-ray drives for
> themselves? The shelf-life of modern appliances is much too short to
> provide long-term solutions. The best practical backup is still paper
> and ink if you want to span a few centuries or if you want to back up
> your passwords. Then there are other solutions that make even more
> far-reaching promises: "5D nanostructured quartz glass optical memory
> could provide unlimited data storage for a million years" (see:
> http://www.kurzweilai.net/5d-nanostructured-quartz-glass-optical-memory-could-provide-unlimited-data-storage-for-a-million-years).
>
>  Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) lexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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> 4.12.2015, 19:42, Bill Troop wrote:
> > An additional point, this kind of continuous backup process does
> > not address the sneaky problems of OS Rot (Software Rot in
> > Wikipedia). The only way to do that is to create single-state
> > backups that can be accessed years later if necessary. The one
> > safe, convenient and relatively inexpensive way to do this is
> >
> > www.mdisc.com
> >
> > http://www.mdisc.com/whereby nearly indestructible write-once DVD
> >  and Blu-Rays can be created with a suitable DVD or blu-ray
> > recorder.