Floppy disks at 2021?!

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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.

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On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:03 AM <borissh1983 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 25 December 2021 3:22:22 IST Steve Litt wrote:
> > said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54 +0200
> >
> > >Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8"
> > >diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes
> > >(from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on key but today I
> > >hardly use even disk on keys, although I used one last week after more
> > >than a year of not using it. And of course CDs I don't use any more.
> > >My parents have stories of using punched cards when studying in the
> > >Technion (around 1970). But I still use hard disks, and I assume that
> > >everything we use today will be obsolete in the next 50 years or so.
> >
> > And this is one of the greatest challenges to long term backup and
> > archiving.
> >
>
> 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).
> I had special db cases (bags?) and even then some of the cds had perished.
>
>
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