Re: Real-world ink longevity test

"Michael Johnson"

| I have our resident troll (and his alter egos) $hit canned in my kill
| file. What he doesn't know is that I continually backup data to the
| latest medium and continually keep backing it up to current technology.
| I have multiple backups on all kinds of media from tape to hard
| drives. I really don't care about what I have on tape now because
| EVERYTHING that I have on tape is now on CD, DVD and hard drive backups.
| EVERYTHING I currently have on hard drives will be transfered to the
| next great medium that comes along. If our resident troll doesn't
| transfer his data to newer media as it comes to market then it is he who
| is misinformed and doesn't really know the facts. But then he has shown
| this to be the case time and time again.

All the back ups in the world won't help in all cases (think Katrina). We
have a policy of backing up each studio at all the other locations. Paid
off as we have yet to find as much as the foundation of the studio outside
of New Orleans.


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