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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Improve Your Photo Archiving Kung-Fu

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Articles & Resources" @ 08:00 PM

"Digital photography has made it much easier to capture special moments in our lives. Folks who carry camera phones can always be ready to point and shoot everything from an impromptu family football game to a carefully staged portrait of folks in matching sweaters. There is no longer the need to worry about having only two shots left on a roll of film during the school play or coming back from the drive-through Fotomat or drugstore with fuzzy prints."

This article gives you the basics of what it takes to safely store and maintain your photo collection. Most of the tips are simple, and I doubt anyone reading this site would learn much from the article - but it might be exactly the sort of thing you should pass on to relatives and friends who are less tech-savvy. I'll take issue with one thing in this article: backing up to CDs or DVDs. Many of my home-burned CDs and DVDs are un-readable now; I only recommend backing up to other hard drives, or to the cloud. Optical media is too prone to decay and data loss - just don't do it. And given the prices of hard drives, there's really no smart reason to use optical discs.


Saturday, March 28, 2009

Do Not Lose Your Data To Rotting

Posted by Hooch Tan in "Digital Home News" @ 12:30 PM

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...about-data-rot/

"Data rot refers mainly to problems with the medium on which information is stored. Over time, things like temperature, humidity, exposure to light, being stored not-very-good locations like moldy basements, make this information very difficult to read."

Your data is important. From bank records to movies to precious pictures, you probably store a lot of that stuff on your computer. Some of us, including some who have learned the hard way, back up our data. But unfortunately, simply backing up or archiving data is not enough. As time goes on, all archival media degrades from old school paper and photos to Travan tapes and punch cards. Sometimes even the technology to access that media gets lost. David Pogue raises the concern that few to none are working on develop a long term storage technology. One specialist even recommends migrating your data to a newer medium every 5-10 years! I don't know if I have the resources and time to do that for the rest of my life, but I do have data that I've kept for the past 15-20 years that's gone through several media changes. Has anyone come up with a novel way of long term storage?


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