Re: OT: backup panic?

On a sunny day (Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:48:51 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:56:19 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:16:11 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:47:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying:
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/?comments=1&comments-page=1
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
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Backup panic?
I have a thousand or more CD's and DVDs in a light proof alu box
I have some 24 year old floppies and a USB floppy reader...
And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
Many old SDcards.
I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation.
:-)

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Copy them to Dropbox before it's too late.

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Not sure dripbox will still work without power after WW3 nuking!
I think online storage is a bad idea, also for security reasons.

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What's on all those CDs and DVDs?

Code I wrote, OSes I downloaded, movies, stuff I recorded (I used to add Dutch subtitles to
some English videos for a local organisation here, wrote the software for that too),
website backup, what not, circuit diagrams., peeseebee layouts...
There are also M-DISCs
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
  I have an LG M-DISC burner in a PC. sitting on the table next to me.
The floppies I simple keep in a steel drawer upstairs where there also is some
bags with peeseebee etching stuff, recently that started leaking,
made a new sealed bag, have not used that stuff in years,
did not seem to destroy the floppies, but you could smell it..
So, big fire would wipe out most, website would stay (hosted by some company).
Much on the DVDs is in special format not easily readable by others.
There is also a lot on Reiser filesystem,.
seems Linus wants to drop support for that from the kernel.
I may well drop support for Linux and write my own Unix like system if he does.

And I have at least 14 TB harddisk space in use now...

Have most interesting Usenet postings all the way back to 1998.

There is more, datasheets, youtube videos I made, videos from others, the usual stuff...
This raspi alone has a 4 TB Toshiba harddisc hanging from it..
raspberrypi: ~ # df
Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        30421240   27573940   1502116  95% /
devtmpfs          3879380          0   3879380   0% /dev
tmpfs             4044244          0   4044244   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             1617700       1336   1616364   1% /run
tmpfs                5120          4      5116   1% /run/lock
/dev/mmcblk0p1     258095      50413    207682  20% /boot
tmpfs              808848         24    808824   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda2      3844420600 2748776460 900283476  76% /mnt/sda2

Those 4 TB Toshiba harddiscs are really very good..
And there is all the SDcards, USB sticks...

You?