[geeks] Best media for personal long-term backup paper tape?

Wed May 6 07:56:07 CDT 2009

10 bytes per inch...
so it makes 10^11 inches (100 billions)

--- En date de : Sam 28.2.09, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> a
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De: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
Objet: Re: [geeks] Best media for personal long-term backup?
@: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Date: Samedi 28 Fivrier 2009, 0h35

On Feb 27, 2009, at 3:47 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:

> So I recently began the process of pulling out my CD-R discs that are 10
> years old and older (I think my oldest disc is now 14 years) out and
> transferring the contents temporarily to my NAS for re-organization and
> re-archiving, and I need to decide on the storage medium again for the new
> (old) archive.

Paper tape?

(how long would a terabyte 'long' paper tape be?! ;^)

Lionel
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