One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption 257
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from the don'tcha-love-finding-corrupted-files dept.
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."
Re:To much reinvention (Score:1, Funny)
At least they didn't suggest just sticking the files "in the cloud".
Easy... (Score:3, Funny)
Don't save anything.
Re:What files does a single bit error destroy? (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.
Re:To much reinvention (Score:3, Funny)
Cloud computing provides an opportunity (Score:4, 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.
Re:Solution: (Score:3, Funny)
II ccaann ssuuggeesstt eevveenn bbeetteerr iiddeeaa.
Re:Use TCP/IP (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy... (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?