Re:Ask HN: What's a reliable long-term personal storage medium?
by DanBC on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @04:02PM
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How important is this stuff? How much time and money do you want to spend on it?
Most archiving software can create extra recovery data, which can help if some of it bit rots. You can supplement that with Par2 data. You then need to have multiple copies, in multiple locations.
If you really don't want to trust a hard drive (you should never trust one! But having multiple copies of data on multiple drives is pretty good) you can get good quality CDs and tyvek sleeves and archival storage boxes and some climate controlled rooms (again, mulitple rooms in different geographical locations).
Most archiving software can create extra recovery data, which can help if some of it bit rots. You can supplement that with Par2 data. You then need to have multiple copies, in multiple locations.
If you really don't want to trust a hard drive (you should never trust one! But having multiple copies of data on multiple drives is pretty good) you can get good quality CDs and tyvek sleeves and archival storage boxes and some climate controlled rooms (again, mulitple rooms in different geographical locations).
Then, handle the discs correctly. (http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/disccare.html)
(http://www.archivalmethods.com/news/Binders%20and%20Albums/M...)