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Mavimao
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Info: Original Trilogy in HD screening this November!!
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22-Aug-2006, 10:04 AM
Originally posted by: Mielr
Originally posted by: Darth Editous
"Since there's no 'hard copy' like film, there's no way to restore missing computer information. It just vanishes." Richard W. Haines


If only there was some way of copying digital data, a "back-up", if you will, that could be used in the case of a disaster...

DE
All well and good....unless the 'back-up' fails. And the 'back-up' of the 'back-up'......





"It has been estimated that NASA has created more than 1.2 million magnetic tapes since the agency's creation in 1958; many of these contain information of great potential value to astronomers. Yet much of the information gathered has been so poorly labeled and stored that it is all but-or even entirely-inaccessible. The problem are familiar: code books describing how to use the tapes have been lost, tapes have been physically , and the hardware necessary to read older tapes no longer functions."


If this is already happening to tapes from an agency started only 50 years ago... I don't have a lot of faith in digital backups as a long term solution.

(http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/an/an15/an15-4/an15-402.html)