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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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How would you ensure a file with high level of error corrections/corruptions resistant? (alien.top)

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Hello, I have a 1 file that I would like to store for a long time (Offline)
I have put it on magnetic tape and in an sealed enclosure, but time will destroy everything, so was wondering if there is a way to like zip the file to make it able to get restored if/when the corruption happens? much like a raid but just for one file

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Print out the binary code and scan it using OCR later on. Store that in a fireproof safe (/s but would work)