Backup options for home

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/08/2008 09:05 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> I remember back in the '80s somebody marketed a backup solution for
> the early Macintosh that was essentially a barcode reader. The backup
> software would print the data in a high-density format that the barcode=

> reader could scan back in to restore.
>
> It wouldn't be practical for terabytes of data, but the shelf life of p=
aper
> certainly beats that of magnetic media and DVDs. I wonder how practical=

> a similar approach with microfilm would be -- how dense the storage
> could be made, what sort of shelf life it would have, and what the cost=

> per gigabyte would be.
>
> And for seriously long-term archiving, nothing so far has beaten the re=
cord
> of cuneiform carved into stone tablets.  :-)
>  =20
I don't know exactly what they do now, but many businesses used to=20
archive the microfiche. The shelf life is decades or longer, and it is=20
easier to store than the stone tablets.

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