[geeks] Best media for personal long-term backup?

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 17:48:08 CST 2009


Lionel Peterson wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 3:47 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:
> 
>> So I recently began the process of pulling out my CD-R discs that are 10
>> years old and older (I think my oldest disc is now 14 years) out and
>> transferring the contents temporarily to my NAS for re-organization and
>> re-archiving, and I need to decide on the storage medium again for the 
>> new
>> (old) archive.
> 
> Paper tape?
> 
> (how long would a terabyte 'long' paper tape be?! ;^)

Hmmm... and would you write in binary or hexadecimal? And at what font 
size?

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