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3-2-1 seems to be a reasonable strategy for keeping the data relatively safe over the long time and maintaining some offsite backup saves it in the event of hou
by PaulKeeble 4y ago
3-2-1 seems to be a reasonable strategy for keeping the data relatively safe over the long time and maintaining some offsite backup saves it in the event of house fires and the cloud is convenient for that it just can't be the only storage. But the bigger issue is often conversion of data, there is often a window in which a format can be converted from an old format to a newer or more popular one and you often have to assess that yearly.
- WalterBright 4y agoI tend to archive things in the most common formats, and haven't had much trouble with it. For example, in the 80s I'd use various compression programs. When I eventually archived them, I uncompressed them with the old compression programs. I store pdfs with a .txt version of their contents, too.