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One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption

Posted by timothy on from the don'tcha-love-finding-corrupted-files dept.

storagedude points out this article about one of the perils of digital storage, the author of which "says massive digital archives are threatened by simple bit errors that can render whole files useless. The article notes that analog pictures and film can degrade and still be usable; why can't the same be true of digital files? The solution proposed by the author: two headers and error correction code (ECC) in every file."

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  1. Re:To much reinvention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    At least they didn't suggest just sticking the files "in the cloud".

  2. Easy... by realsilly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't save anything.

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    1. Re:Easy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or print everything.

      Then take pictures of it with a digital camera and copy the resulting image into a Word document which you can print! How's that for cyclical redundancy?

  3. Re:What files does a single bit error destroy? by gzipped_tar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps that is what the poster meant by "bad spot". If "Hitler" were altered to read as "Hatler", I'm pretty sure the meaning would still be clear from the context.

    Godvin.

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  4. Re:To much reinvention by Whalou · · Score: 3, Funny

    ReiserFS is good for that also. If you make a deal with the 'file system' it will tell you where your 'file' is hidden.

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  5. Cloud computing provides an opportunity by davide+marney · · Score: 3, Funny

    As we're on the cusp of moving much of our data to the cloud, we've got the perfect opportunity to improve the resilience of information storage for a lot of people at the same time.

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  6. Re:Solution: by igny · · Score: 2, Funny

    II ccaann ssuuggeesstt eevveenn bbeetteerr iiddeeaa.
    II ccaann ssuuggeesstt eevveenn bbeetteerr iiddeeaa.

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  7. Re:Use TCP/IP by nomadic · · Score: 2, Funny

    You might be able to find some suggestions on how to fix that on Gopher.