Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/08

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Subject: [Leica] Back up back up back up
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sun Oct 8 15:00:11 2006
References: <200610081515.k98FElMp082774@server1.waverley.reid.org> <CBCB808F-36B3-4D98-BFAC-EA3C6B1367A0@optonline.net> <138A0942-4A8C-4D86-987D-FAC82BA0F5E8@ncable.net.au>
 
Nowadays it is easy to make a high-reliability backup.

Buy a USB or FireWire external drive, copy your files to it, turn it off, 
unplug it, and put it in a safe place. Once a year you should turn it on for 
a few minutes, and once every 5 to 7 years you should copy its contents to a 
new drive.

I am a believer in the archival properties of Mitsui's Phthalocyanine/Gold 
CDs and DVDs, such as those marketed by Kodak, and I fully expect that the 
archives and safety copies I have made on these discs will last long after I 
am dead, but as long as I am alive I am also making active backup copies on 
external hard drives that are turned off most of the time.
Replies: Reply from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Back up back up back up)
 In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 33, Issue 80)
Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Back up back up back up)