Re: FLAC for Archive?

["Marc Myers" primatemarc]

Best today to think of archiving as a process rather than a media. It would=
 be great if we could rely on CDs but the formulations change over time, ev=
en from the same brand and company. We have only the word of the manufactur=
er that their media is archival anyway. What they profess is their best gue=
ss. I am not confident that there will be a CD player or a USB port or an o=
perating system that supports PCIe in thirty years even if the media holds =
up. I've two boxes of floppy discs and a shelf of U-matic video tape to sub=
mit as evidence of my concern. Better one archives by having a backup strat=
egy so there's always duplicate copies and those duplicates are periodicall=
y tested and migrated to new media. These days "new media" may also mean cl=
oud solutions.
Marc