5 Feb
2007
5 Feb
'07
12:56 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Preservation of correspondence
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
medium.
backups (which I've seen several CD's
that I created around 97-98 which
are now having problems reading certain sections) and Tape backups of
today I wonder if they are truly as high grade as say the old TU78s of
That's why you routinely transfer from old medium to new medium every
5-10 years.
Just last night I dumped 7 CDROMs to .ISO images and stored all of them
onto a single DVD-ROM; then made a 2nd copy and stored that somewhere
else. In five to ten years, I'll transfer the DVD-ROM onto some new --
I do the same thing but also keep the original media. I dumped a few hundred
Colorado 120MB tapes to a bunch of cdroms years ago, and will dump those
cdrom to dvdr soon. The data on the CDs is in directories referencing the
tape number so I can go back and dump the tape again if the cd gets lost or
damaged. The problem with putting floppy images on a DVD is that if you lose
or destroy that DVD you lose a ton of data (and the time involved archiving
it).