Re: Preserving Disks

[rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold)]

Thanks to all the email responses.  The general consensus is "Tough
Luck".  All magnetic media will degrade, and even WORMs may degrade
over the time period I'm thinking of, though that's being argued.  

Generally the best strategy seems to be:

Take the non-protected stuff and put it all on some large form of
storage, like a DAT tape, WORM, or magneto-optical disk.  Then refresh
it once a year or so.  At least this is a monolithic operation, rather
than over hundreds of disks.

For the copy protected stuff, keep in a cool dry place, and recopy it
every 5-10 years.  Argh.



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