• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I have 3 physical backups of all my stuff, one a rotating offsite backup. The backup media gets replaced over time.

    I don’t expect media (especially backup media) to last more than 10 years. But it doesn’t matter, as my NVMe backup solution of today looks nothing like my spinning rust backup solution of 20 years ago, despite holding all of that data.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 day ago

      invest in a tape backup, tape formats like LTO will last LTO tapes are cheap and durable. Write time can be slow but reading is quick enough for what it is

      sure an EMP might corrupt it but if you are that paranoid, you could use a safe for shielding