[Ardour-Users] Archive media

[Noel Darlow]

Hi

> Right now I am backing up to a portable hard drive and storing in
> fireproof safe... but yes, concerned about eventual failure of the
> hard drive, unless one were to rotate the backups to multiple
> drives...

Important data should always exist on at least three separate disks,
IMO. It's a big problem with the digital medium which catches people
out all the time. We're used to physical things like paper records that
can last for hundreds of years whereas a hard disk might only last for
five or so. The only safe solution is to have multiple copies.

Noel