It may be helpful. Consider online backups for your important digital documents

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(09-09-2019 07:11 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  Be careful of this strategy.

Exactly. In our yearly firefighting training they keep telling us that the purpose of a hand-held fire extinguisher is to clear a way for a safe escape. It is much too small to extinguish a real fire anyway.

(09-08-2019 11:47 PM)Albert Chan Wrote:  I rather keep physical documents, if possible.

Even if the data is digitally stored, and in good condition, we may be unable to read them later.

Digital Preservation and the Doomsday Project

Quote:Less then 15 years later, it’s system was unusable. Compare that expensive failure to the longevity of the Domesday Book:
a record written on paper in Latin in the 11th century and is still readable today.

I'm not so sure about that. The relevant Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project) says that all the data of the Doomsday Project are still there. They had been retrieved from their laserdiscs in time and were even publicly available on the internet for some years. Due to copyright issues the website had to be taken down, but the data itself is safe.

And I would say that the surviving Doomsday Book from the 11th century is a great exception. The vast majotity of books from that time are long gone.

Regards
Max