Re: Archiving - In general

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

Alan Schuetze wrote:
> 
> Leo,
> 
> Ethical warning: I work for a company that makes a possible solution for
> you.
> 
> You have many choices out in the market place, dozens.  We, along with our
> competitors can automatically capture your spooled files and archive them.
> What you can do with the reports after you capture them is where the
> differences come into play.
> 
> CD burner for long term storage?
> I'm still not sold on this type of a solution.  I've been unable to find
> data on the shelf life of a burned CD.  Lots of documentation and white
> papers on stamped/production CDs but burned CDs use a different technology.
> 
> Anybody with any info on burned CDs?

You bring up an interesting question, but I personally would be
less concerned the shelf life of CD data than I would be with the
practical life of the CD _drives_.  For how many more years will
we all still have CD drives connected to our computers?   Will we
be able to get data off of a CD and back onto a computer 5 or 7
years from now?

At home I have 6 10MB bernoulli cartridges (8.5" x 11") 4 IRWIN
40MB tapes, and about 200 5.25" diskettes on which something
valuable might be stored... I just don't have the technical
ability to read them anymore.  Although I could easily find a
working 5.25" diskette drive and add it to my desktop, where the
heck am I going to find a working 10MB bernouilli box??? :(


jte




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