https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/07/personal-digital-archiving-backing-up-your-collection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-digital-archiving-backing-up-your-collection A Publication of the Public Library Association Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/07/personal-digital-archiving-backing-up-your-collection/#comment-16750 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:47:21 +0000 http://publiclibrariesonline.org/?p=2931#comment-16750 Saying that “No online backup service is as reliable as a storage device that you can see and touch” is a very strong statement. Even a generic cloud storage service like Amazon S3 offers 99.999999999% durability: if you store 10,000 photos in S3, you’re likely to lose only one photo every 10 million years. I haven’t seen any other storage media that can make the same claim.

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