DSpace is not about backups indeed. Its about problems like this one - An acquaintance of mine has a true blue 5.25 inch "floppy" disk with text data of his re

DSpace is not about backups indeed. Its about problems like this one - An acquaintance of mine has a true blue 5.25 inch "floppy" disk with text data of his research that he can't recover - 'cos the disk's format is inaccessible, the text is not in ASCII (probably EBCDIC), drives that read it aren't available now, the OS that knows the file system (CP/M I think) isn't available, the cpu that the OS ran on isn't available now . I'll grant that you can recover it, but only with great difficulty - sort of a Rosetta problem.