5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
1:44 p.m.
On 04/05/2013 03:59 PM, Jason McBrien wrote:
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
point my
And interesting (and seemingly
straight-forward) article about
issues we face & discussed:
Tech is the biggest problem facing archiving
Mountains of unreadable obsolete magnetic tapes!
By Chris Mellor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2013/04/03/archive_technology_**problem/<…
An interesting article, but the issue is a bit overblown. I still have
inbox files from when I was in college. They are in simple text mbox
format. I could throw them away, but why? They take up around .01% of my
total backup server space. They aren't indexed, but I could easily indexing engine at them if I wanted to. If my kids
care about them when
they grow up they can troll through them (at which point I'm sure they'll
take up .0000001% of their available space)
For your situation, and mine, yes, it's overblown. But there are many
large companies who do have to worry. Brings back some threads here from
6 - 7 years ago about how to preserve the data for our beloved classics...
BTW, what's the word on Sellam these days? What's he up to?
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