archiving data, was RE: Media Longitevity/Care

[William Donzelli]

> Your method, unless I am misunderstanding you, has no revisioning.  It protects 
> against hardware failure, but how many revisions do you keep?  What protects 
> against you mistakenly deleting the wrong directory, etc.?

Procedures. 

The mainframe folks have been doing this for alost 40 years
(mostly) flawlessly.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org