• PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    Optical media? Is that a viable part of backup strategies? I would expect tapes for sure, sounds like you know more than me.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago
      1. Better than not having an offline copy.
      2. Write-only, ransomware cannot delete/encrypt it.
      3. Drives are still cheap.

      Downside is having techbros talk you about laser rot, how internal drives are obstructing the optimal airflow in GAMING PC cases, and how Gabe Newell is based and stuff.

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      3 hours ago

      A quality disc can last 10 years or more. At a company I used to work at the backups were burned to discs coated with gold. They had 15 year old discs that still worked.

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        2 hours ago

        Dang that’s rad, had no idea (about it being used in such a way, I guess I mean, not too hard to imagine discs lasting that long).