On 12/30/19 7:47 AM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Would agree with Mark that the best plan is off-line hard disk storage. Zip lock ESD bag, with desiccant, multiple physical copies in diverse locations.
I would augment that by making it a *set* of drives, stored in a block-checksumming filesystem like ZFS, and treat the set of drives as a unit. ZFS filesystems in particular can be "imported" and "exported" to/from a system as a unit, making this convenient.
BTW, If you can find them, best disk for long-term storage at the moment is the M-DISC. Bought a large quantity in 2010, zero failures to date.
I've noticed a decrease in M-DISC availability lately. Do you have any idea of what's going on with that? I have some discs and a drive, and I've made archival backups of some irreplaceable stuff on those, but am nearly out of blanks and went looking recently...I don't see as many out there as I did a couple of years ago. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA