Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess you're refering to my problems with Video8 tapes of my kids when young - the LUG helped me much and I'm in the process of translating them all into digital form. The only thing to do to alleviate future digital acheologists workload is to move up with time - and even then ... think of the Y2000 bug when they had to recall retired programmers ... Best from old Europe Phx Pasvorn Boonmark wrote: >Bob, > >This is very true. I have some of the tape from the '80 that I have >no machine to read it. > >I think we had a discussion about this a month ago and someone >suggested a good solution. >You need to rotate your archival media - not only the media, but also >the technology behind it. > >For example, I have a number of tape, when CD available, I should have >move that to CD. >When Blue-Ray is available, I should move from CD to Blue-Ray, etc.. etc.. > >This is also true to the software that is used to archive them. For >example, Vista archive does not read older Window back-up software. >You need to get an additional software to read it. > >For Unix, in general, "tar" work great. :) > >-Pasvorn > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >