• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, I’m at the point where I view all storage as temporary, just on different time scales. Storing anything indefinitely requires ongoing maintenance to replace degraded media with fresh media.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, lots of newbies fall victim to this. Nobody wants to believe hard drives fail, until their hard drive is dead and they’ve lost all their data.

      I believe there’s a saying along the lines of “nobody wants to build earthquake-proof houses before the first earthquake.”

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      Yea but literally nothing is. The best thing you could do is have multiple backups in multiple locations.

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      11 months ago

      Unless you use mdiscs. Those still degrade, but it’ll take centuries.