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Remember to backup those important digital recordings onto analog tape :D

Many of us are in the process of archiving analog tape recordings and baking tapes before transfering to whatever long-term storage medium we decide is best. I use a food dehydrator for baking sticky-shed tapes as has been suggested in this forum. Thanks guys! Analog tape is a proven storage...

EUREKA! Go for the gold. :D

For anyone that is interested here is another great thread on this subject :) http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=184198&highlight=vinegar+syndrome

Sounds like many of us are and will be archiving to CD-R. It's hard to know how long they will last. Thankfully better technologies are emerging. For instance this year Kodak launched a Preservation range of CDs and DVDs that incorporate 24-Karet gold and under testing have shown to withstand...

Okay so what is the life cycle of a DAT tape drive? Should we all be storing our wav files on DAT (digital audio tape) for the long term?

Right, analog tape is a proven long-term storage medium. So it sounds like the best thing to do at this time is bake the sticky shed tapes and transfer to good quality tape again plus make wav files. Hopefully it won't be too long before a reliable and durable storage medium comes along for...

:eek: That is very good advise, thanks! I will begin making data cds on the very highest quality discs affordable and maybe copy to another hard drive as well.

:D thanks The National Archives is using magnetic tape for long-term audio storage? Let me put it this way......if you were going to put all of your recordings in a time capsule inside a cave to last 1000 yrs time, what storage media would you use at this time? Transcribe to scrolls? :)

That's a good point.....no degradation whatsoever. But having to transfer every 5-10yrs for a large collection of audio files is time consuming! Right now I am storing all wav files on my hard drive and not using discs. Is there a better alternative at this point in time?

Mad, You have vast experience with archiving. I am participating in a long-term audio restoration process involving baking magnetic tapes and tranferring to digital sound files as many of us are doing. Given the extremely limited lifespan of both CDRs and HHDs I sometimes wonder if we should be...

Right, but doesn't it seem that digital objects are actually quite fragile because they can be so easily manipulated? Also many of us are storing our precious recordings on burned cds which have a very limited life-span depending on how they are stored. Naturally we will be always migrating to...

What is your digital archiving strategy for long term preservation? CDRW DVDRW EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FLASH DRIVE MAGNETIC TAPE NONE OF THE ABOVE Will wav files still be around 300 years from now?

:eek: I am the client. Time to break-out the Hazmat suit.

After you made the transfers did you then store the masters in a refridgerator or did you dispose of the them?