Once a few thousand pages (ie. one's complete library) is finally all loaded onto a tablet - and the tablet eventually fails - here's a cool video about an easy-schmeasy way to retrieve all of that sheet music.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/12KpcBNPHeh/
cool video about music storage
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Re: cool video about music storage
Always keep your digital data in 3 locations with one of them preferably off-site.
I backup my laptop (FIRST source) nightly, to an external hard drive (SECOND source) and to my home server (THIRD source). I also have a snapshot full backup on a separate hard drive that I keep at my in-laws house (FOURTH source). The 4th source is a snapshot in time, but it is better than nothing. I also keep some of my data synced to my Google account.
I backup my laptop (FIRST source) nightly, to an external hard drive (SECOND source) and to my home server (THIRD source). I also have a snapshot full backup on a separate hard drive that I keep at my in-laws house (FOURTH source). The 4th source is a snapshot in time, but it is better than nothing. I also keep some of my data synced to my Google account.
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Re: cool video about music storage
I really don't think I have any digital data.
I have some fire resistant file cabinets and every year we throw away sh!t that's a certain number of years old.
Actually (ironically?) we use it as kindling in the wood stove.
This is a log house with a metal roof. Insurance companies don't understand this very well, but it's pretty darn hard to catch a log house on fire, particularly when it sits up on a pretty high foundation. Traditional construction houses feature continuous 14-in chimneys in every single wall, though the exterior walls might have some loosely fitting fiberglass in those chimneys.
When a house is constructed of horizontal stacks of 8-in solid logs, it's pretty hard to catch those on fire, just as it would be to put a bunch of 8-in logs in a pile and start a campfire.
The wood stove chimneys are double wall, and we've run separate metal chimneys inside the double wall chimneys direct to the stoves.
If we're gone for even a day or so, I turn off the well, turn off the gas furnaces, and unplug all of the battery charging devices, including laptops.
If there's a dry winter (which is almost unheard of) I'll go around it and scalp all of the dead grass down just above dirt level. This defines grass fires as extremely unlikely.
If it's going to be dangerously cold, we simply don't leave.
Paper deteriorates over time, but can be kept in sort of good condition, particularly if the quality of the original is high, and not some crap printed off of a computer printer. All digital information is temporary and deteriorates over time as well. Inevitably, zeros and ones disappear and eventually enough of them disappear so as the digital information is no longer readable, and this regardless of media. Nothing we can come up with is permanent, even though we don't like to think about that.
I have some fire resistant file cabinets and every year we throw away sh!t that's a certain number of years old.
Actually (ironically?) we use it as kindling in the wood stove.
This is a log house with a metal roof. Insurance companies don't understand this very well, but it's pretty darn hard to catch a log house on fire, particularly when it sits up on a pretty high foundation. Traditional construction houses feature continuous 14-in chimneys in every single wall, though the exterior walls might have some loosely fitting fiberglass in those chimneys.
When a house is constructed of horizontal stacks of 8-in solid logs, it's pretty hard to catch those on fire, just as it would be to put a bunch of 8-in logs in a pile and start a campfire.
The wood stove chimneys are double wall, and we've run separate metal chimneys inside the double wall chimneys direct to the stoves.
If we're gone for even a day or so, I turn off the well, turn off the gas furnaces, and unplug all of the battery charging devices, including laptops.
If there's a dry winter (which is almost unheard of) I'll go around it and scalp all of the dead grass down just above dirt level. This defines grass fires as extremely unlikely.
If it's going to be dangerously cold, we simply don't leave.
Paper deteriorates over time, but can be kept in sort of good condition, particularly if the quality of the original is high, and not some crap printed off of a computer printer. All digital information is temporary and deteriorates over time as well. Inevitably, zeros and ones disappear and eventually enough of them disappear so as the digital information is no longer readable, and this regardless of media. Nothing we can come up with is permanent, even though we don't like to think about that.