Ask HN: How do you persist your archived digital data for the long term?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19664841

by pedro1976 • 7 years ago

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Assuming you are one of those, that does not outsource data persistence to 3rd parties (cloud), what is your approach to persist digital data for the long term, 20 year and more.

iSloth• 7 years ago

I’m assuming you mean personal data, such as family photos? I store onto a local NAS, with offsite DVD-R of the important stuff.

Personally I still like writable disks as one copy, you can’t (within reason) hack or accidentally delete something that’s offline in a safe most of the time.

nikisweeting• 7 years ago

Archivebox.io output saved to a zpool with raidz2 where I rotate out bad drives as they fail over the years. Every 6 months I dump the whole folder to Amazon Glacier, and I have an off-site back up in another city that’s also updated less frequently.

Odenwaelder• 7 years ago

For photos, print them and stow them away. Prints survive hundreds of years, if done right. This should not be the only strategy, though.

thexa4• 7 years ago

https://perkeep.org/

Designed for long term storage, supports multiple storage backends and can replicate them.

Ask HN: How do you persist your archived digital data for the long term?

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