<div dir="ltr">Maybe backup your files on the cloud - S3, Google Cloud, Linode. But also there I don't know what will happen in 50 or 500 years.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction:rtl"><div style="direction:rtl">אורי</div><div style="direction:rtl"><a href="mailto:uri@speedy.net" target="_blank">uri@speedy.net</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:03 AM <<a href="mailto:borissh1983@gmail.com">borissh1983@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Saturday, 25 December 2021 3:22:22 IST Steve Litt wrote:<br>
> said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54 +0200<br>
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> >Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8"<br>
> >diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes<br>
> >(from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on key but today I<br>
> >hardly use even disk on keys, although I used one last week after more<br>
> >than a year of not using it. And of course CDs I don't use any more.<br>
> >My parents have stories of using punched cards when studying in the<br>
> >Technion (around 1970). But I still use hard disks, and I assume that<br>
> >everything we use today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so.<br>
> <br>
> And this is one of the greatest challenges to long term backup and<br>
> archiving.<br>
> <br>
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working long term backup that you do not need to update is a myth, both hard drives and cds die with time ( I had seen it few years ago when I was updating my archives to a newer media types).<br>
I had special db cases (bags?) and even then some of the cds had perished.<br>
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