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Hello all. We have a prof in our department who wishes to look into what
systems are available for PC backup. He has many megabytes of data
and more as research continues and he'd like to have some sort of
permanent backup systems so that this data can be used for years to
come. We already have tape drives but the drawback of tapes is that they
sometimes break, and they are magnetic hence is still not safe under
heavy usage (many students retrieving data over the years to come).

Has other research institutions/universities face this problem of
permanent data storage (and I don't mean hardcopy :))? What do you use
for your data backup system? Any words on WORM systems? Optical drives?
Writeable CDs?

Thanks in advance.

Thomas.

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