I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.
Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?
Honestly? If it’s not that much data just throw an additional copy up on Google Drive.
Blasphemy in the hallowed halls of FOSS.
Cool, but an actually useful answer.
Yes, that may be an option… except that google can irreversibly lock you out of your account, or they can delete your files if their content scanning think it goes against some of their terms, but also simply there are people who don’t want to lose their privacy to google.
It’s more likely that a Google data center exists in 100 years than your house. If you have a personal aversion to it then I can understand - but, realistically, it’s more likely that an offsite copy on Google Drive exists in 2123 than a random piece of furniture you own - and furniture is pretty damage resistant.
It’s more likely that a Google data center exists in 100 years than your house.
Yes, but it’s more likely that Google will have killed a particular service like Drive. Cf. Google Reader, Hangouts, Data Saver extension, Buzz, etc.
Please read my comment again. My concerns are not about google drive shutting down. These have happened to real people.
Good for a 3,2,1 backup method but bad for archival. We don’t know if google will even exist in whatever number of years OP wants to archieve for or if the data will be deleted/modified by google themeselves due to some crap policy like their 2 year inactive account one for example. Just too many factors that will be out of OP’s control
That’s quite fair, personal preference is an important factor.
But if it’s encrypted does it matter?
Lol imagine ever having considered megaupload as your backup solution.
Yeah. It should not be your only backup, but it can be one of them.
The data remains yours if you encrypt it. Someone else’s computer saves you all the time and effort of maintaining and monitoring hardware.
You want to use the actual services meant for this. S3 or glacier or something, not just consumer cloud storage like Google drive or Dropbox.
