CD-R's could be coasters after only two years
They could be little more use than coasters after just two years. via Rob Galbraith. Given that DVD's are likely to suffer similar problems what's a guy to do? Punch Cards? Seriously - I'm not sure how to keep my images around long enough to be my daughters problem. I don't really want to migrate from media to media every couple of years. Ideas?? I'm all ears.
Update: Scott Hanselman asks a similar question in The Problem of Persistence: Storing and Backing up One's Life a Gigabyte at a Time and gets some interesting replies including Wired Prairie - Backups. Is anyone out there using tapes? How long do they last? Including the hardware, is it cheaper than gigabytes of external hard disk?