Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] Digital Image Preservation [OT?]
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:17:08 +0530
References: <c7c8cf880903261123l31898b73lf86a47ef89a0ccc1@mail.gmail.com>

I have had major problems with HP tape backup solutions at the office which
even HP themselves had no means to read.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Pasvorn Boonmark <pasvorn at 
boonmark.net>wrote:

> Bob,
>
> This is very true.  I have some of the tape from the '80 that I have
> no machine to read it.
>
> I think we had a discussion about this a month ago and someone
> suggested a good solution.
> You need to rotate your archival media - not only the media, but also
> the technology behind it.
>
> For example, I have a number of tape, when CD available, I should have
> move that to CD.
> When Blue-Ray is available, I should move from CD to Blue-Ray, etc.. etc..
>
> This is also true to the software that is used to archive them.  For
> example, Vista archive does not read older Window back-up software.
> You need to get an additional software to read it.
>
> For Unix, in general, "tar" work great. :)
>
> -Pasvorn
>
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