I’m a storage guy and a father. Coming of age in the digital era means that I’ve never taken a picture on celluloid, I used my first bonus at MCI Systemhouse to buy my first real camera which was a floppy disk based Sony Mavica (which solved the early Linux/UNIX camera driver issue.)
Now, here I sit with dozens or perhaps hundreds of gigabytes of memories. One of the great joys of being into storage is that on one hand I’m aware of the wide variety of data solutions available… but I’m also aware of how fragile all these solutions are.
So I put it to my readers… what is the best method for photo archiving? We’re talking about pictures we want to see in 30 years.
One popular method is to use an online backup or photo archiving site, such as Flikr or SmugMug or StrongSpace or Box.net. But will these businesses be around in 30 years? It is possible that these services could loose the photos, and there isn’t much you can do about it.
A hedge would be to use multiple services, to have 2 archived copies. But that means active management of the data. You need to check in on things from time to time and ensure that its all there in tact.
Tapes are too expensive, so they are just out all together.
When I think about it, I can’t help but feel that the best solution is, frankly, to burn your images to optical disk (DVD) and store them in a bank vault (safety deposit box). You could go so far as to burn two copies and store both just in case, given that people stand behind optical disks for about 10 years and then its anyones guess… although we all, I think, agree that in a safe environment such as a bank vault degradation of optical media is unlikely to be a problem. DVD also is a format most likely to be around, in some form, in 30 years.
The biggest problem with DVD is the small capacity. BluRay is better, but its life is still questionable, especially for data storage. USB sticks or even hard drives present mechanical issues.. will USB be around in 30 years? will the filesystems still work then?
So I put it to you again… what do you think is the best means of storing long term personal data in large quantities?
What about Amazon s3? Assuming that Amazon is not around in 30 years, do you feel you would not have time to get your data and come up with another plan?
This is a coming problem that frankly, I don’t think enough people are thinking about.
I have about 50 GB of photos. When I download them from the camera, I sort them into date based directories from EXIF info. Then I run jigl (http://xome.net/projects/jigl/) on each directory.
These dated directories become sub directories of isoN. When isoN gets to ~ 4 GB, I create isoN+1 and burn isoN to a few DVDs. One for home, one for Mom’s home, one for Nana’s home, etc.
You can point a browser at a DVD to go though it too.
What does a Pro photographer do? That might shoot 10-100 GBs a week?
Or someone with a videocamera? 4 GB chunks is quite limiting.
I’ve got a 35 GB DLT drive & lots of tapes, but that’s slow and ~ 8 years (less?). Anything with more capacity is expensive.
Well, External USB drives can be had reasonably priced, but how long does that data last when it’s not spinning? Do I want to pay for electricity all that time? What it there’s a fire/flood/huricane/godzilla attack?
Well if you’re asking so far as 30 years ahead of us you might consider moving from storage type to storage type.
Say you start with a USB stick and in 5 years you move to whatever is the best option at that time.
I got the very same problem.
I don’t use dvd since they tend to fail after 3/5 years (I am talking about burned dvd, not pressed dvd).
I use flickr to save my images online (this is like a site backup, I suppose s3 or anything like that would do the trick) and store them on my computer using zfs+mirroring.
If there is a problem (theft, house on fire etc.) I can use flickr to get back my images and if flickr goes down I’d swicth to another service with my hd backups
I’ve seen many of my friends loosing all the data they got on cupter because of theft or just because the hd died.
I just started using zfs, convinced by this post http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/zfs_saved_my_data_right that it was the perfect fs for long storage.
This problem can be solved with a bunch of external fw/usb hard drives and some accommodating, nearby relatives/siblings/parents/trustworthy friends.
It already sounds kludgy, I know, but bear with me.
I keep a rotating backup of my Aperture and iTunes libraries on a pair of external hard drives. I fill one and drop it off at my parent’s house, as they’re A) people I trust and visit at least once a month, and B) it’s not my own house.
In the time between my next vist, I back up to the second drive. When I return to my parent’s house, I drop that off and pick up the other one, and keep this cycle going. This gives me off-site, reliable backups on pretty much my own terms. And it’s fast! a trip to my parents takes me 1.5 hours, RTT. I shoot 15.1MP RAW photos and encode my CDs in Apple’s ALAC lossless format, so even weekly incremental backups tend to be on the order of 10GB.
If my house burns down, gets burgled, or whatever; reclaiming my photos and music just means a drive to my parent’s house. Granted, it’s not entirely free, as gas costs money, and sometimes Dad takes advantage of my visit to help sink a few fence posts in the back yard… but on the upside I get decently reliable offsite backups and some of mom’s pumpkin pie to take home.
/dale
The only surefire way to work around these possible technical problems is convert everything to analog: print them.
I’d suggest an annual-or-so project where you pick the photos you’ve taken that have a real lasting meaning and printing out nice copies of them, and putting them in a firebox or the like.
Everything else involves some level of risk of bit-rot. If you’re conscientious about it, you can keep moving the data to new formats and whatnot as they arise (I’ve done this for the last 15-odd years) and keep as much of your data in open formats as possible to maximize the chances of being able to “migrate”. A few years ago I had a bit of a scare when I realized that a number of my older digital photos where in the .kdc format. I had a hard time finding something that worked on my computer that could read that format.
Hey Ben,
Personally, I’ve found bliss with Picasa, PicasaWeb, and my NAS. The key thing is that all of this had to be transparent to the wife. She takes pictures, and puts them on the PC—I don’t.
She runs Windows, I run Linux. Fortunately, we can both use Picasa. I configure the Picasa application clients to store pictures on a SMB share on the NAS. This gives us protection from a laptop or desktop failure. The NAS is RAID5, so there is decent resiliency there.
The great part about the setup is the integration between PicasaWeb and the Picasa client. After I initially setup the client with my Google account information, all the wife needs to do is click one button, and the pix are synced up to PicasaWeb.
The NAS might not be around in 30 years. PicasaWeb might not be around in 30 years. The odds of them both going dark on the same day giving me no time to find another solution are odds I’m willing to live with
Thanks for all of your posts – I appreciate them all. Hope I might be able to help you!
Justin
Backup and storage technology like any other technology is constantly changes and as it changes we should change with it. Instead of trying to rely on one solution for 30 years, adapt as the years go by.
Probably 5 years ago backing up to cd’s would work. Now I have a fileserver with a couple of raid 5 arrays and also back up to amazon’s S3.
I second @dale’s comments above — for me, hard drives have been the answer. Easy to store, easy to get data off of, easy to back up to. And by rotating backups, you’re checking your archives regularly — you never have to worry that the data on your dvd “archives” has rotted away in the bank
The best advice on this subject i’ve ever seen came from the long comment trail on mark pilgrim’s blog (http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/05/08/backup):
you should think of “long term storage” as a string of short-medium term solutions that are replaced every few years.
Another vote for local storage + something remote. With Terabyte+ discs as cheap as they are there is no real reason not to keep a full copy of everything local. Then use Mozy (pc/mac) or some rsync or zfs send wizardry to send everything to some variety of cloud storage.
It would be nice to put everything in the cloud as an archive, but there simply isn’t a solution out there I’d trust, and they tend not to interoperate to boot.
My digital photos make up a 400GB backup set. Solution: ZFS and rsync, quadruple redundancy and distributed .
I documented my workflow here:
http://www.majid.info/mylos/stories/2002/06/29/digitalImagingWorkflowMatters.html#backup
http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2008/04/10-1.html
I admit, the analog option is a good one. I’m a big fan of Shutterfly.
If you’re really worried about with bit-rot issues, there’s always the PAR format, which creates parity archives – here’s a program that does it:
http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
This way if you can recover a portion of the original files, and some of the PARs, you can recreate the data. The most common use of these is on the Usenet alt.bin.* newsgroups, but there’s no reason you couldn’t use it for your own files.
Unfortunately everything but analog won’t last very long. Have the most important pictures printed, and store them someplace safe, they’ll outlive you and your kids.
Agree with Martin: take your favourite pictures and print them to paper three times: one copy for you, one time for your parents, one time for your wife’s parents.
If your kid(s) are in the picture with another kid, print out a fourth copy and give it to the parents of that kid. You’ll have extra redundancy and build some karma.
Also, send them out to be printed. A home printer can be convenient for small batches, but it’s more convenient to drop off some media at a store and pick them up a few days later. (Or find a service where you can upload them and automatically have prints sent to relatives.)
Other than that simply make regular backups of your hard drive and treat your photos like you would any other data: one backup copy local (for quick restores), and another copy offsite (perhaps in your work drawer?). As you upgrade machines over the years move them forward.
I use crashplan.
I have a b104 box with a zfs mirror.
The crashplan client is installed on my macs and on the b104 box.
Crashplan backs up to from the macs to the b104 box.
Crashplan enables you to backup to your friends also.
So my main iPhoto archive is also backed up to my friends crashplan box.
It takes a while for the stuff to be copied to my friends windows crashplan client offsite.
This isn’t an “archive” strategy per say. I guess over the years, my photo will be upgraded along the way.
I’m a pro photog and this is a difficult question to answer. My average shoot totals 20GB or more of raw photos and final 16bit PSDs. I do one or more a week, much more during season.
It all comes down to the offline backups. What should you use? DVD/BluRay (data rot issues, compatibility), 2TB HD (longevity issues once they spin down), Flash cards (data rot again).
Online storage is impractical for the amount of data that I need backed up. It would be agonizingly slow to upload 20GB of data at once.
I currently only do DVD backups and am hoping for the best.
I agree with the comment above: back them up (in two places), and keep moving your backups/archives to current media formats.
I like DVD. Use quality write-once media: http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm, and a good DVD burner and a fireproof box or safety deposit box. Maybe some way of testing the integrity of the media over time, such as MD5 sums?
Ah, something like SecurDisc would be good: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurDisc
I am storage admin too, and I am already facing this problem.
I have data that I created in the early 1990s. The format was DOS ASCII text. I saved it to 3.5″ floppy drive. The applications were wordperfect, and dbase III. later I added a lot of files in Lotus Ami Pro & 1-2-3 format.
These aren’t pictures, but the problems remain the same:
#1) applications and vendors go away. They do not install in modern O/Ses with dual and quad core cpus. Try to install DOS or some DOS-based games (Ultima II, whatever) from the 90s in Windows Vista or WINE – it ain’t happening. There are now “DOS emulator” programs just for this 2009-ish problem. NTFS/EXT3 will just as silly as FAT16 in a few years – which filesystems are backwards compatible 10-15 years?!?!
#2) once the OS/media gets TWO generations removed from current, that’s when you lose access to it. If you really “want it” you have to examine your data and bring it into the modern, least common denominator format. ASCII or HTML for text, .jpg or RAW for pictures, and a nice DRM-free FLAC/wav/.mp3 (not that mp4 /.ACC Apple-shit) format.
#3) I will never, never never trust an external service provider (like Amazon S3) with an online copy of my data. Aren’t your f*&^%$#ing tax and financial and social security records in there, and you’re going to GIVE IT TO A HOSTILE, FOREIGN ROOT?!? Plus, I got too much data to upload to the bank vault in the sky.
#4) I messed around with encryption (host-based and hardware device), with drive compression, with zip/rar/tar formats – all I did was discover how fragile they are – forget a password, lose a key, miss 1 archive file in a set of 10… hey I want my daughter/grandchildren to be able to retrieve this stuff after I die – so I leave off the cloak and dagger stuff and store it in a plain, open format.
I sold my Apple Newton, my Sun sparcstation 5, and my Commodore 64 on eBay – where those devices and their storage formats gonna last for 30 years? Don’t be ridiculous – even I yawn when my boss starts talking about “RLL/MFM hard drives” and “Sun IPC/IPX”‘es. My freaking Blackberry has got more raw MIPS and better power/heat mgmt than a Sun IPC.
So basically, twice a decade you gotta pull your data out of cold storage and make sure it is readable in your distro of choice, massaging the data as necessary. I use external hard drives and DVDs stored offsite, with a copy of the install media for the OS that made them. But IDE Hard drives are going the way of the dodo bird – time to update my offsite HDs to SATA, or buy an Eee PC and put the whole thing in the safety deposit box?
But I stress “touching” and “examining” the data every 5 years – NOTHING will work if you leave it alone for 30 years. (‘cept maybe printing those pictures, but we all got too many to print even 10%, right?) — svrocket
I have the same concerns that you are having. DVDs are not build for eternity and even the golden ones will die after abour 30-40 years. The other question is… will we still be able to use DVDs in 20 years? I mean… I used 8″ disks about 15 years ago- is there still any device i could use these with? Not at all!
Online-services is my current solution. Besides of my local backup i am using backblaze to backup all my data online. But as you said… who knows if this company will still exisit in 30 years? Same with flickr, ipernity, dropbox, etc. Honestly I have no really future-ready recommendation.
The only recommendation i can give you is about the fileformat. I tend to use DNG (Adobe’s digital negative format). It is standardized and Adobe claims that it’s future-ready- so I hope i’ll be still usable in 30 years.
Hello Ben!
I think DVD or CD is bad for two reasons:
1) Fragile
2) Maybe in the future will be difficult to access (like old VHS)
But i don’t think HD will suffer from this issue in the near future… so, im my opinion put all the photos in a HD, and you have a good chance to be able to access them in the future.
But remember… who has one, has none…
Printing is the only secure solution.
For extra-security print the most important ones as black and white photographs.
Everything else is just a waste of time and will result in failure ultimately.
Just because you’re a storage guy, doesn’t mean you’ve got to solve all problems with computer-”storage”.
If all you’ve got is a hammer…
Hiyas Benr,
what you want to look into are MO-Disks and drives (Magneto-Optical). The stuff is extremly reliable and designed for long term data storage in mind.
However the problem of “if the stuff is still around in 30 years” you will face with every solution you chose.
Unless ya doing printouts of your photos on stonetablets of course
DVD’s long term stability worries me, but that risk could be mitigated by burning multiple copies of the files across multiple disks. Keep multiple copies of the checksums too. With this technique you could use a higher density media like Blu-Ray that has less well known long term stability. Also it might be a good idea, every 10 years or so, to check em and re-burn them onto the current highest density media. The additional cost of the duplicate material would be offset by the higher density.
One thing that no one has mentioned so far: media capacity has grown exponentially over the years. And that makes the practice of rolling over your archives onto the latest technology every 5 years easier and easier.
For example, the first full backups of a system I had in 1999 fit on sixty 3.5″ floppies. It was a large stack, it weighed a lot, and it was a pain to sit there switching floppies. But two years later I archived the entire system to a single 650 MB CD-ROM (with two copies separated geographically). Five years after that (2006), the same 650 MB archive comfortably exists in a directory on my desktop computer. It now only takes up 0.13% of the 500 GB hard drive.
So as time marches on, it becomes easier to store older data on new media. There’s more capacity for your old stuff, and you can move it around faster too (network and disk I/O improvements).
Also, some other points to consider:
(1) An un-powered hard drive sitting on a shelf makes a pretty good archive, unlikely to fail. Just be sure to have redundant, physically-separated copies. (Eggs in a basket…)
(2) Use open, standard formats for your data. This offers the only guarantee of long-term access. Otherwise, you may want to archive the software (and OS) used to create/edit your data.
(3) Beware of any purchased software or media (movies, music, etc.) that require online registration or other forms of “phoning home” to grant you access to it. The commercial entities and/or their licensing servers will eventually go dark, and you’ll lose everything.
Ben,
What about creating some form of ZFS archive using 5 DVD drives in a RAID-Z2 format? Double-sided, double layer (aka DVD-18) DVDs store close to 16GB… that would get you 70 GB perhaps and data protection…
Right now I do exactly what you’ve figured out… dual copies of DVDs in the fire vault or offsite…
I have to agree with many of the earlier comments but one in particular stands out. The only medium that has not failed on me and that has been usable over the past 15 years or so is Magneto Optical. I can pick up a disk written that far back and still read it and if need be reuse it. By the way. I always keep an extra drive capable of reading the old format in a box.
Granted, the disks from 10 years ago are much smaller in capacity and are not that usable but it will work in the drives of today without issue. The sad part is of course that the format has not progressed as fast as the other and tops out at just over 5GB. I can shoot 5GB of RAW photos in no time at all and the edits to the images consume just as much or more space. The media is expensive also. What this means of course is that storage of everything is tiered with only the most critical going to Magneto Optical and the bulk going to DVD-RAM and then the junk going to hard drives and plain old CD/DVD.
The funny thing is. It is not the media or the formats that I have problems with. It is finding anything in a system that spans two decades of data. I can’t decide weather it is easier or harder than the boxes full of paper files and photos. Digital does take up a lot less floor space though!
One las notet. I was in a local electronics retailer recently. Part of their business is duplicating media and converting formats. I was looking around while waiting for something and glanced over where they do this. It was amazing to me to see the sheer number of machines on hand to do this. There was even something that looked like an old hand crank film projector retrofitted with a modern light source. Talk about a dead format.
will the banks be around in 30 years ? =)
Hi Ben,
You probably know more about this stuff than most here, but you’re asking so I’ll try and tell you what you already know
Whatever means you choose, make sure you’re able to verify the integrity of your files and check periodically. ZFS is nice, but you don’t want to be stuck with it, so I’d create MD5 hashes and store them with the files. Don’t settle for one type of storage and replace a particular type of medium to stay current. Let’s say you’ve got a zpool online somewhere, using a three way mirror, and periodically, you copy all data to an exernal drive that you keep somewhere hidden at home, together with a boot medium that allows you to read the drive. Once a year, you burn your files to a current optical medium (DVD’s) and verify the previous two copies to make sure they’re in good shape. If they’re OK, you destroy the oldest set and store the disks in a safe somewhere. This way, you’ve got multiple locations, multiple technologies, and – important – you’re somewhat protected against human error
Take care,
Hans
NL
I favor a simple external harddisk approach with multiple copies and locations. It is important to not overwrite data (otherwise you might propagade corruption into your archives).
The technology age problem can be avoided by regularly migrating to newer disks. With HDD a copy is done quickly.
Bernd
Its probably not cost effective, but UDO (Ultra Density Optical) looks interesting (http://www.plasmon.com/). 60 GB per disk. 50+ year media life. Google says an external UDO2 drive costs at least $2600, though.
Personally I use a VXA-3 tape drive. I trust tape than burned CDs or DVDs. I don’t recall why I decided against external hard drives but I should probably reevaluate that decision.
A subject near and dear to my heart at the moment – a long reply over at: http://www.infrageeks.com/groups/infrageeks/wiki/cc37a/Re__Ben_Rockwood_on_photo_archiving.html
Several people have suggested printing them out as the only sure-fire method. I’d like to point out that it isn’t so sure-fire. Most commonly available photo printers are inkjets, and inkjet ink tends to fade badly over time. Laser print is probably safe, but the quality leaves something to be desired. Dye sublimation is probably the best choice, and the quality is better than anything an inkjet can produce.
As far as digital storage goes, I’d archive them to CD or DVD (or whatever the optical disk technology of choice is) and copy to new media every N years (for some safe value of N), or whenever a format you like better appears. Make two or more copies; if one develops bad sectors the other will probably not develop them in the same place. I’ve had good luck with CD-R discs that are over ten years old, if the media quality was good to begin with and they were kept out of sunlight. (Sunlight will bleach the dye layer and make them unreadable.) CD-RWs have not been as kind to me, so I’d avoid rewritable optical media.
Stick with popular formats because they’re the most likely to stay accessible. 5.25″ disks have been obsolete for at least 20 years, but there were so many of them that it’s still possible to track down a drive to read one if you ask enough geeks.
Stay away from anything proprietary that’s only readable by drives from one manufacturer. e.g., just about anything invented by Sony falls into this category.
Gold-plated LPs were once NASA’s future-proof, read-anywhere format of choice but the bit density kind of sucks.
Oh, one more thing — if you use a fire safe, make sure it’s rated for computer media or has an insert specifically designed for media. A safe that can protect paper will not protect computer media!
Then there is Chris’s First Law of Archiving: Don’t
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ReliableArchives
Divergent advice that is at least worth considering.
I don’t think it is possible to futureproof your data for 30 years on any given media today. The only approach that will work is one that will require active management of the data.
I have my current stored data set on a redundant ZFS filesystem today, with an external copy kept up outside of the house. I haven’t yet gotten around to automating the data propagation but that is on the to-do list – since my parental unit has an always-on Internet connection, the plan is to set up a data repository there and have data propagate there over the Net without any user intervention, and then trusting to ZFS to keep the data bit-perfect on storage systems with multiple disks.
So far that has survived the loss of three out of six hard drives in my data storage box and one move from Solaris to OpenSolaris – and I will continue to evaluate ways to keep my data set from getting corrupted or destroyed. I don’t think there is a silver bullet store-somewhere-and-forget-it-for-decades approach, and I wonder if there will be.
Converting to analog and printing will give those readers up here who suggested it a rude shock if they do it on consumer inkjets or, well virtually any form of modern printer, as was noted by David Brodbeck up here. Unless you plan to store said printouts in a lightless vacuum, they will fade quite badly in a matter of years. Sure, you could laminate every darn photo, but how many people would do that for tens of thousands of pictures? And that too would only mitigate the issue, not solve it.
Maintaining your data and constantly evolving its storage as times change is the only way I can think of to have any surety of keeping it intact.
Very interesting discussion.
And you really need all the photos after 20-30 years? What if our parents take thousands of photos and make them all on paper? How much big bags or something have they today?
I can see, my mother who is one today, has some tens of them. Parents, relatives, some friends to remember. Not more.
My father is professional photographer and he will produce many gigabytes of data daily. When his “darkroom” became mess of usb external drives (more than 15) and cables and piles of DVDs we decided that he need a proper server. I built him opensolaris server with Supermicro motherboard and plain 8 port sata controller. Attached 8x500GB disk in radiz2+spare configuration. That is also great reason to use ZFS as you don’t need any special and fancy hardware and proprietary RAID controllers. I did this just to test everything and it did turned out great. By the way, he filled up server in less than a month. In his workstation he is using 3TB storage for Lightroom and Photoshop processing.
Now I will buy 8x2TB disk and rebuild the server to get close to 10TB of storage. Everything what is really important also goes to external hard drive and what is super important goes to external hard drive and dvd-s. When BlueRay disc will become more affordable that would become another backup option. Now that we both have 20/20 MBits fiber in house I will let father use my server so he can offload important projects off-site.
I think ZFS will be here for long time and it is super simple to move on ZFS pool to new server when in many years in future storage will be even cheaper.
The key thing I did try to put in my father head is to make selection of pictures to keep when importing RAW’s from camera to try to keep minimum storage needed. The second is to keep backups of important stuff on external disks and for very important stuff to keep them also on DVD-s.
The bigger problem is to find later something you need but that is another discussion
Currently I store backups of the archive on multiple machines (connector strongspace, strongspace, some of it is on bingodisk) as well as another box the other side of the states.
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I’d like to point out that it isn’t so sure-fire. Most commonly available photo printers are inkjets, and inkjet ink tends to fade badly over time. Laser print is probably safe, but the quality leaves something to be desired.
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Wow. Great stuff. I am in the process of working with a country club as an archivist. They have different types of media but primarily photos. Not sure which method will work best for them. Scope of the project I believe will be to preserve 100 year old photos while organizing digital of today… Should I bother scanning older media to print additional copies? Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks. In addition, I have been going through my mothers pictures and I can tell you first hand it is impossible and massive!
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Well this issue about photo archiving is awesome. Basically I have the following sure facts about it that could also apply to important documents you have or even videos of your important occasions:
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1. Frankly speaking, in the long run (say 30 years), we’re all dead said one economist. So it would probably nice to include all your hard and softcopy files and documents in your will and testament with instructions to your heirs to update and re-store these in better formats in the future. We just hope our descendants value our hard work on this
2. Any storage media could be obsolete in 30 years, be it DVD, flash disks, CDs, tape media;
3. Printed hardcopies of only the most important fotos could be a good strategy. But it could be expensive and bulky to print/store all you have. Just make sure you use good paper and ink. We’ve had family fotos dating over a hundred years in the family, but then again these were sepia (or black and white) one so faded colors are not much of problem;
4. Multiple media types along with multiple copies stored in multiple locations (e.g. trusted relatives, friends, in a bank vault) should minimize loss of precious photos. Just make sure to upgrade to the latest media/technology type when made available. CDs and CDROMS, CD-R, CDRWs for instance are fast becoming obsolete. Even VHS which has dislodged Betamax as far as video is concerned, is obsolete now. Online data storage is ok, so long as your data is protected from hackers, viruses;
5. Donate your precious mementos to museums and charitable institutions especially if you’re that famous.
Just make sure to upgrade to the latest media/technology type when made available.
if you’re that famous.
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