Archiving strategies

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>
wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name>
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:41 pm
> >I've been looking for something similar to archive the family photos to
> DVDs and still have them online.  I've decided to just create a directory
> for each DVD and archive it when it gets full.  Then I create another
> directory.
>
> I've started archiving our family photos to Amazon's S3 storage cloud.
>  Recurring cost for about 8GB is about $.77/mo and I consider it a bit more
> fire/theft/water resistant than a fire safe in my basement.
>

That's an interesting take.

I have a Solaris file server with RAIDZ (like RAID5).  I've been creating 2
DVDs.  One local, one at a relatives place.  I'm up to 10 DVDs right now.  I
can SSH in for remote access & I have a reasonably quick uplink.

I don't know enough about S3 to know how secure it is against theft/someone
getting it online.

I'd also be concerned about how long they're going to be doing S3.  I think
Google is working something similar up.

I'd be much more concerned about a newer startup or someone with a history
of abandoning products (Microsoft...).
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