Packrat or Archivist? [ was Adventures in GPG ]
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 13:11:15 EDT 2007
On 3/21/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> I've gone 5.25 + 3.5 floppies to CD.
> DVDs are not as reliable for archiving as CDs. And CDs can be read by DVD
> players so there's little reason to migrate away from them yet. Of course
> 4-5 CDs fit on 1 DVD so maybe it's easier to have 2-3 DVD copies in various
> locations then CDs.
You should archive to the latest DLT. 800 gigabytes per tape.
Without compression.
Might cost a bit more, tho... ;-)
--
"One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / And the next it's rolling over me"
-- Rush, "Far Cry"
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