Re: Reliable Medium For Long Term Backup And Archiving
thanatoid
You mention Googles drives not being 100% Reliable?
If you believe this you must store everything on Tape like we did 1960?
(Reel to Reel?)
If so apparently you haven't heard about RAID technology?
and Clustering? it's been out for a while since Tape Drives.
And Very Reliable.
Of course! not you use a hard drive!!!
The only reason we used tape in the old days because it was cheaper than
Hard drives
Now that HD's are cheaper than Tape, we use hard drives, it's really that
simple.
Even the big boys use HD and have been for a while,
and Recovering 1 file from a tape. UGH! Exhausting.
You can choose to pay Big bucks for tape if you want.
I just hope you don't forget it in your car on a hot day
or the drive heads become miss aligned which they do after time.
and you want to actually RECOVER something.
(But yes arguably the data will be there, you just can't retrieve it.)
Oh and hackers? LOL
I bet someone can open your door to your house/office
easier than un encrypting a 256bit encrypted file
Of course if you are an Idiot and have a password of password it's your own
fault.
Tape is dead, let It RIP.
Russ
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"thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message
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> "HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> wrote in
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>> In addition to the other good suggestions, there are
>> companies that can backup your data online.
>>
>> A simple backup scheme is to make a backup zip file and
>> mail it as an attachment to your own Gmail account. Google
>> allows some 8 gigabytes of mail storage, so this works for
>> smaller data retentions. Of course there is no limit on the
>> number of Gmail accounts you can have...
>
> And I understand those "free online backup" companies and Google
> have invented a 100% indestructible HD which they have patented
> and told no one about?
>
>> Another advantage of online backups is availability from a
>> remote location. If your backups are in a fireproof safe or
>> bank vault, they may not be immediately available.
>
> Let alone to hackers.