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Archiving Digital History at the NARA

Posted by timothy on from the sort-and-toss dept.

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"?"

4 of 202 comments (clear)

  1. Usually when I archive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I try to keep it from the RIAA and the MPAA.

    Joke:

    Q. What's the difference between a businessman and a nigger?
    A. The nigger steals a $100 car stereo and lands his ass in prison while the bussinessman steals millions of dollars and is praised by U.S. government.

  2. YO8U FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    our ability to 4s it is lIcensed

  3. mod Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    my resignation Of programming it will beq among

  4. Simple Solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    [bush@wtf]su
    Password:
    [root@wtf]cd /
    [root@wtf]rm *

    or for those agencies in lockins....

    C:\Documents and Settings\Bush's Documents\>C:
    C:>del *

    Our gvt is better off without a bazilion petabytes of patents.