Re:Ask HN: What's a reliable long-term personal storage medium?
by petervandijck on Sunday September 01, 2013 @04:45PM
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For longevity: make multiple copies.
Harddrives: fill them up with photos and leave them stored at your parents' place.
Cloud: back up to at least 1 cloud provider (Dropbox, Amazon, ...).
Local: local computer, of course.
That's 3 backups there, which is not a bad start. Next: burn some DVDs etc. and again, leave copies at your parents' house.
For photos, my final backup (additional to the above) are printed photo books of which I make multiple copies and hand out as presents to mother-in-law etc.
More copies in more formats = longer life. Think about how your kids are going to recover these.
Harddrives: fill them up with photos and leave them stored at your parents' place.
Cloud: back up to at least 1 cloud provider (Dropbox, Amazon, ...).
Local: local computer, of course.
That's 3 backups there, which is not a bad start. Next: burn some DVDs etc. and again, leave copies at your parents' house.
For photos, my final backup (additional to the above) are printed photo books of which I make multiple copies and hand out as presents to mother-in-law etc.
More copies in more formats = longer life. Think about how your kids are going to recover these.