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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 *** Lexitec Online *** Lexitec in English: http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/ 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 |