Archiving Digital History at the NARA

val1s writes "This article illustrates how difficult archiving is vs. just 'backing up' data. From the 38 million email messages created by the Clinton administration to proprietary data sets created by NASA, the National Archives and Records Administration is expecting to have as much a 347 petabytes to deal with by 2022. Are we destined for a "digital dark age"?"

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Re:Data loss will always be a possibility

[LiquidRaptor]

Heh, I always thought the whole point of christianity was you didn't need to worry about the 10 commandments as long as you accepted Jesus, but then again, that woulda ruined your troll so feel free to ignore.