Archiving Data Permanently

[Ezra Nugroho]

USB drives? Scratch proof, more heat resistant.


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:48 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm wondering if people could give me suggestion about the most economical 
> ways to archive data more permanently. Often time we want to clean up some 
> harddrive from machines in our offices, and we want to archive the data first 
> before we wipe it out, just in case we need them in the future, though 
> unlikely. What's the best way to do this in cases like that ? I am talking 
> about 20GB - 75GB size data maybe. 
> 
> What I've done so far is just tar-bzip2-ed all the files and directory to a 
> single .tar.bz2 file. Then I am planning to use 'split' to split it and then 
> write them to like CD or DVD, but this could easily takes many discs. Are 
> there any other more economical ways ?  
> 
> Thank you for any help.
> 
> RDB
>