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Text files are amazing for longevity - however, they are obviously limited in the type of data they can contain (text). Personally I create a lot of visual dat
by magic_hamster 2y ago
Text files are amazing for longevity - however, they are obviously limited in the type of data they can contain (text).
Personally I create a lot of visual data such as images, drawings and video, as well as audio. I try to have everything accessible in the most rudimentary lossless format, but in this domain there are so many tradeoffs. It would be interesting to read (or perhaps write) a similar post for this sort of data.
- XorNot 2y agoI have been swinging around to the opinion that SQLite + files is perhaps the universal data format after all. Files give you efficient blob storage, and the SQLite database can in fact encode most types of constraints and structure.
- rishikeshs 2y agoI had the same thought will writing this. I do not have an answer other than plain text. But in terms of preservation and archiving, I'm thinking of storing the files in binary as a backup.
- kelvinjps10 2y agoJust link to the files ? In markdown you can do just link to the files