Archiving for the Ages

摘要

Wondering what to do with all the photos, 8-mm movies, and financial records you've got scattered about your house or office? How do you back them up? How do you convert analog images to digital to stop the aging process? Can you trust digital backups? Here are a few approaches. For the near term, you don't have to worry about file formats changing or CDs becoming obsolete, so just back up everything that's already digital to CDs or DVDs. Store one copy off-site, say at your office or in a safe-deposit box. Also, put the most important data on a home PC, so you have an easy recovery method. The biggest immediate dangers to data are user error and viruses.