Re: Long term storage

["Marc Myers" primatemarc]

The more your media is dependent on a certain technology the more trouble you 
are in. This is not just tapes and discs. Even six or seven year old hard 
drives are no longer compatible with new computers. Some DLT tape suppliers 
promise fairly long shelf life but nothing of this sort is permanent. If moving 
from one kind of physical storage to another is not feasible, then one must 
accept that at some point in time you will loose your material. 
Best to think of backup as process, not a technology. As many know, backup is 
done regularly in some kind of tiered process that includes copying  your 
material periodically (to new and current media) and redundantly (keep a local 
copy and also send one to a second location). Lately these cloud storage 
solutions offer some alternatives. Time, of course, will tell.