Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event?

kactusotp writes "I run a small indie game company, and since source code is kind of our lifeblood, I'm pretty paranoid about backups. Every system has a local copy, servers run from a RAID 5 NAS, we have complete offsite backups, backup to keyrings/mobile phones, and cloud backups in other countries as well. With all the talk about solar flares and other such near-extinction events lately, I've been wondering: is it actually possible to store or protect data in such a way that if such an event occurred, data survives and is recoverable in a useful form? Optical and magnetic media would probably be rendered useless by a large enough solar flare, and storing source code/graphics in paper format would be impractical to recover, so Slashdot, short of building a Faraday cage 100 km below the surface of the Moon, how could you protect data to survive a modern day Carrington event?"

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if people die i hope my source code survives

[alen]

wouldn't it be cool if everyone died but your code survived? it would be on the next season of Life After People

you're a MORON. i joke about DR with people all the time. i get daily emails about spending ridiculous amounts of money on DR. sure it works for fortune 500 international megacorps and financial exchanges but for smaller companies it makes no sense to spend a lot on DR. if a nuclear bomb goes off in NYC or an 8 magnitude earthquake happens my concern is my family, not going to Philly to get DR running. like i'm going to dump my wife and kids and hope they survive just to go do DR
who cares, in the ensuing depression most of our customers will go out of business anyway which means my employer probably going belly up