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After dealing with these issues many times over the past few years with
a variety of floppy, tape and MO formats, the plan I finally settled on
(at least for the time being) is keeping everything live on server and
protected with the default (albeit short-term) server backups. The
cost of additional disk space is now minimal compared to the labor
costs of updating archival formats over and over again.
> We're really in the same position we were twenty-five years ago--do we
stay
> with 8" floppies or move to the new 5 1/4" floppies. Of course, no one
> thought of the 3 1/2" floppies that eventually won out--for a while. The
> longevity of your media is less important than the longevity of your
> hardware and software; any one know where I can find someone who can read
8"
> hard formatted Processor Technology floppies?
>
> Look at archival storage as an ongoing process. Every few years you're
going
> to have to re-record it on new equipment with new software on new media.
One
> prime example of this is in genealogy where records were painstakingly
> microfilmed and then the originals destroyed. The best of the microfilm
> can't touch today's technology and is unsearchable.
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