17 Jan
2023
17 Jan
'23
5:39 p.m.
A take (mine) on the backup/archiving problem is that any medium that is used for this
purpose will eventually be rendered obsolete and possibly unusable without going to
extreme measures. My solution is to use whatever (economical) hard disk device has the
most capacity and store stuff there along with some metadata where possible for about 6
years and then upgrade to something new. In this case, because hard disk capacity is still
growing, replacing 1 TB disks with 4 Tb in a triple mirror raid. I use a synology 4 disk
bay with 4 tb disks that is configured as 4 mirrors. In 6 years or so i’ll upgrade to
something like that that’s newer with bigger drives like 8 - 12 TB (might be bigger, but
depends upon cost) . This is the best solution, both affordable and redundant that i
currently can come up with.
I think computers will continue to use disks( and thus be supported) for the rest of my
lifetime so I’m reasonably happy.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 17, 2023, at 08:57, Chris via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
The bottom line is you have to dispense with the fantasy that any media will reliably
keep data for really any length of time. You must habe resundancy. You could go the
optical route, but even witj redundancy I don't recommend it. If it's a small
amount of data, maybe it's not such a bad idea, you can have 3 or more copies. But
backing up a lot of stuff will be very laborious. And likely won't save money as
compared to magnetic disks.
I'm done with the sargasso sea of cables. I bought 2 3tb 2.5" usb drives (and
all my data may be bigger then 4tb). I'm scaling down everything.