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Re: Teams, Personalities, and Getting the Job Done

by zentara (Archbishop)
on Sep 16, 2005 at 13:40 UTC ( [id://492607]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Teams, Personalities, and Getting the Job Done

could you recover data from a tape made on a Colorado Backup portable drive that had only Windows 95 drivers ever written

That brings up an interesting point about storage.... do tapes even reliably store data that long? Even cdroms and DVDs, are being critisized for failling after only a few short years ( even though they are touted to last 100's of years). It would seem to me, that with that sort of "30 year requirement", that there should be a organization-wide "data storage standard format" (with simple error recovery methods), and a tested medium to put it on. Something like everything must be dumped to XML before written to some high quality medium, which will be stored in a temp-controlled, lead-lined vault.

That is a good "breaucratic solution" because it involves alot of new staff, paperwork, and funds. :-)


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Re^2: Teams, Personalities, and Getting the Job Done
by neniro (Priest) on Sep 16, 2005 at 13:54 UTC
    If it had been an SCSI-Streamer and all the files had been tared on it, I would say that there would be a bigger chance to get those data restored after some years.

    On the other hand, 30 Years are lot of time in my opinion - 20 years ago we switched from 8 to 16 Bit architecture, approx. 15 years ago we switched to 32 Bit machines and nowadays 64 Bit are affordable to normal people.

    I didn't want to try to restore some files from 20 year old C64-disks now - and 20 years in the future I probably will find those old DVDs to crappy to try to restore some of the data stored onto them.

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