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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your drives? by pocketstar on Saturday July 19, 2014 @05:47PM (#8058848)
>There's no one thing that is sure to keep your data around for decades.

Using paper will keep your data around for decades.

Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your drives? by ggreer on Saturday July 19, 2014 @06:40PM (#8059002)
There are many ways in which paper can be destroyed. My mother has no pictures of her childhood because her home was burned down in a race riot.

And analog media has many disadvantages. Storing, reproducing, transporting, searching, or modifying analog stuff is really hard.