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Digital data storage
Greetings,
I have a question about what constitutes adequate storage for a digital
archive. We are creating a digital archive of several thousand photographs
that have been scanned and saved as TIFF files. We are planning on burning
the files to CDs. The question I have is, how many copies of the CDs do we
need? My boss, who is concerned about the bottom line thinks that two copies
will be adequate- a master copy and a working copy. I would also like to
burn a third copy and send it off-site as a kind of disaster insurance (in
case the building burns down). Are there any commonly accepted guildlines
for redundant backups of digital archives? Are two copies adequate, or is a
third copy necessary? Thanks,
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Archival Technician
Tuzzy Consortium Library
P.O. Box 749, Barrow, AK 99723
(907) 852-1720 / 1729 fax
amaclean@co.north-slope-ak.us
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