Jump to Navigation
Home
The Digital Family Trunk
Precious memories for future generations

Main menu

  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Read
  • Future topics
Home › The Digital Family Trunk: personal digital archiving › Archiving digital material ›

Long-term storage of the archive

Submitted by rob on September 7, 2008 - 10:16
  • Protect

We recommend an external hard-drive with an installed operating system and file viewers as well as the data.

[technical details to come here...]

will it even boot in 50 years?

And who will refresh it every 50 years? Can you create a trust? Who will be the custodian?

‹ Custodian of your legacy: your digital estate up Physical storage media ›
  • Login to post comments

Book navigation

  • The Digital Family Trunk: personal digital archiving
    • Digitising personal records
    • Capturing the digital present
    • Organising digital records
    • Archiving digital material
      • Custodian of your legacy: your digital estate
      • Long-term storage of the archive
      • Physical storage media
      • Access to data
    • A plan for starting your archive
    • Links

Popular content: all-time

  • Personal digital records presented, archived and preserved
  • Personal digital archiving
  • Fake old documents
  • Offsite backups
  • Archiving digital material
  • Links
  • The Digital Family Trunk: personal digital archiving
  • Making backups
  • Creating books
  • The problem of quantity
more
"Digital Family Trunk™" is a trademark of Two Hills Ltd.
Contact the Webmaster

Except where indicated otherwise, all contents of this site are © Copyright 2008-2012 Two Hills Ltd www.twohills.co.nz. All rights reserved
Permission is required to reproduce this content in any form. Brief extracts may be used without permission if attributed with a link to this site. RSS feeds may be used without permission. Permission is granted for anyone to link to this site.
By accessing or viewing this site, you are deemed to have agreed to the terms and conditions.
The contents of this site are unmoderated submissions from authenticated and unauthenticated users. As such they cannot and do not represent the views of Two Hills Ltd.
Use of any trademarks on this website is not intended in any way to infringe on the rights of the trademark holder.
This site is developed, maintained and hosted by Two Hills Ltd
Made in New Zealand