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Re: OT: backup panic?

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:47:58 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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>Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying:
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/?comments=1&comments-page=1
>The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
>
>Backup panic?
>I have a thousand or more CD's and DVDs in a light proof alu box
>I have some 24 year old floppies and a USB floppy reader...
>And some 20 year old harddisk that still works...
>A 15 year old USB stick used every day...
>Many old SDcards.
>I like one of the comments that says illegal copies will save the situation.
>:-)

Copy them to Dropbox before it's too late.

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OT: backup panic? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-13 03:47 +0000
  Re: OT: backup panic? Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2024-09-13 10:25 +0100
    Re: OT: backup panic? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-13 03:55 -0700
    Re: OT: backup panic? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-13 13:09 +0000
  Re: OT: backup panic? john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-13 09:16 -0700
    Re: OT: backup panic? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-14 05:56 +0000
      Re: OT: backup panic? john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 07:48 -0700
        Re: OT: backup panic? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-14 15:56 +0000

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