Subj : Re: Archiving For Armageddon
To   : warmfuzzy
From : Greenlfc
Date : Fri May 19 2023 06:30:25

Certainly archiving is a worthwhile thing, but we need to be mindful of how long we're backing up for.

For example, if we're saying that we're backing up for personal use through a period of trials (say, tensions flare with China and our internet infrastructure becomes unreliable), that's one thing, and valuable.

On the other hand, if we're saying that, as a planet, we get bombed back to the stone age, and there are only small pockets of civilization left, that's very different.  In that case it could be centuries before any new gear is constructed, and those generations would have an archaeological task to recover data from crazy media that was used in the past.

In that case, analog is going to win; printed media, books, vinyl records, kept in friendly climates (ala the Dead Sea Scrolls).

All that to say, be mindful of supporting infrastructure and the balance between keeping things available for your children/grandchildren (to include multiple copies of your critical media, multiple devices of different types/brands, etc) and for perpetuity (acid free paper media, sealed, stored somewhere with appropriate climate, etc).

Side thought, try to make a means of printing available to the folks in need; we may have stocked up on all media made by man, but the future generation using it will know what's important and what they need to make paper copies of for when the tech fails.

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