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configspace
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Yeah there's no ideal solution for archiving. As far as media life time goes, nothing beats discs, but of course the problem is capacity, although I hope the aforementioned archive Sony/Panasonic disc format coming soon would help.
A problem with LTO-x tapes is that you need multiple tapes in rotation to provide durability, since backing up to the same tapes regularly (or even reading from them) absolutely kills them. Whatever is your backup frequency is that many more x tapes you need for the same capacity. But at that point, the cost effectiveness is way less than hard drives for continuous backup needs. Some companies are moving away from tapes for this reason. 6TB HDs are out now for $300 and pricing and capacity is finally progressing with new tech, and if you need to refresh data or require a live redundant copy, some companies can just do away with tapes altogether. I agree that with really big data needs, third party services are probably the way to go, at least for a secondary off-site back up. I looked into Amazon Glacier, but I hate their TOS. They have the same clause prohibiting using it to store any content that is offensive. |
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Asterisk-CGY
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So is there a reason we can't use Bitorrent for archiving? Have everyone who cares support part of the archive with it constantly bantering about online so there's no single point of failure to completely ruin everything?
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Polycell
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@configspace: Video is probably as perfect for tape backup as you can get. Once you've finished everything, there's not much reason to overwrite it.
@Asterisk-CGY: Wikileaks released an "insurance" torrent full of unredacted classified data in case things went south. That's probably the closest example there is, whatever its fate. In practicality, bittorrent would probably be involved at most in keeping backup sites in sync or bringing new ones online. |
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yuna49
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On the subject of jury duty, I think the system we have here in Massachusetts works pretty well: one day or one trial. I've had days when I wasn't called and could leave around lunchtime. I've also sat on a jury, but our "one trial" took only a couple of hours, so it was essentially a one-day experience as well.
Of course, you could end up on a murder trial and be sequestered for days. Hasn't happened to me yet. |
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Barbobot
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That's what almost happened to me when I was going to school in MA. My one and only time I've been called for jury duty so far and it was gonna be for a murder trial they expected to last 2 weeks. Luckily I wasn't picked and was able to go home mid-day and I was done. |
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EyeOfPain
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samuelp
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I kind of like that idea but you'd have to change the protocol I think. Something more like winny/share/perfect dark would work, where each user puts aside a portion of their storage for caching files in the sharing cloud, even if they aren't actively downloading/uploading them specifically. Thinking about that, you could probably come up with some kind of peer-2-peer data archive protocol, which is optimized for redundancy instead of download speed. But it would have to be heavily encrypted and damn near impregnable before I think anyone would trust using something like that for backing up important data of any sort. Plus the copyright implications are gray area at best. But I could imagine a p2p protocol that allows you to upload files into the p2p network, and where ONLY YOU can download them back. In exchange you give a portion of your hard drive space to the cloud for other people to use... By setting a ratio of like, 4-5 times the space required per upload capacity, you can make sure there's enough redundancy. Interesting idea, at least. Not gonna work for 10s of TB and above though, that's for sure. |
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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On the subject of RWBY. THEIR HANDS LITERALLY GO THROUGH THINGS! This isn't a one time occurrence, this happens rather frequently. It's possible to have a small budget and put in actual effort. I'd understand stiff animation or if these people weren't being paid and this were some art school project but this isn't. I don't expect everything I watch to be a masterpiece but I expect at least an honest effort!
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Polycell
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Asterisk-CGY
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I feel like part of this archival process is allowing the public access to the content. This isn't to save it for the company for eternity, this is about keeping around content for the sake of history. |
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doc-watson42
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A small correction: the first commercial BD releases were in 2006, not 2007. |
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