Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.
  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Some executive somewhere:

    In fact, files end up corrupted,

    Backup often and check the backups.

    That costs $

    data is improperly transferred

    Backup often.

    That costs $

    hard drives fail

    Backup often.

    That costs $

    formats change

    Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn’t carry DRM.

    That costs $ (Probably, I’d ask IT but we laid them off as a cost reduction so meh )

    work simply vanishes.

    Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?

    That costs $