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Anything that's really important to me I print out on paper and keep a microfiche backup.

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Re^5: Data lost from private scratchpad
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 08, 2016 at 22:14 UTC

    In fact… I’m waiting for the day an EMP of any serious size goes off in any strategic place. And everyone learns how tenuous and ethereal data can be; and just how many eggs have been put in one gigantic basket.

Re^5: Data lost from private scratchpad -- Paperbak
by Discipulus (Canon) on Oct 11, 2016 at 09:09 UTC
    why print on paper and keep microfiche when you can directly backup data on paper? see Paperbak for details ;=)

    I tried it with my scanner and it works!

    L*

    There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
    Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
      But do you have the corresponding "restore" program available in human readable form? After an EMP, the machine readable copy of it won't be there… :-)