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The only viable option for reliably keeping data is to care. Keep several copies in different locations or on different services. Use these storages regularly
by Slartie 2y ago
The only viable option for reliably keeping data is to care.
Keep several copies in different locations or on different services. Use these storages regularly so you always know they are accessible and working, or at least check them once in a year. If one of them goes bad (service discontinued, media unreadable, technologically outdated, whatever): find a new location for your data and copy it all over.
Everything else isn't reliable long-term storage, but a lucky shot that might work for you in 50 years, but might as well irrecoverably go down the drain in the meantime.
- thomassmith65 2y agoBluray or not, much of your comment is sensible. That said, maybe one in 1000 people here is going to successfully stick to a regimen of regular backups all the way to their old age. That's the HN crowd, not the general public who have never heard of the Rule of Three. People get distracted with life, or become incapacitated, or find themselves moving across the country, or make mistakes. Without recordable Bluray, it's all much more difficult. Discs don't need regular checkups the way magnetic, cloud and electronic media do because they have fewer issues drying out, rusting out, suffering head crashes or suddenly vanishing due to someone else's corporate decisions.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoIt depends. Cheap pressings of optical media experience bitrot. I'm certain some of my bootleg DVDs are functionally unreadable now but were usable in the past.
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://webservices.archive.org/pages/vault https://webservices.archive.org/pages/vault https://archive.org/details/vault-overview https://archive.org/details/vault-overview