Ronald W. Frazier wrote:
> In our conversation, I learned that approximately 3% of the records 
> generated by the state government are classified as permanent.  Many 
> are stored at the local state agencies, with some coming to the GA 
> Archives.  More and more, they are being generated electronically, 
> sometimes with no paper at all.  They are initiating a pilot project 
> to create a digital repository to store permanent records for a small 
> part of the data from one agency.  They're expecting to start out with 
> about 1 Terabyte of data, stored on a RAID disk system, mirrored off 
> site, and backed up.  I hope to learn more about it once it gets 
> rolling.  I speculated that, once they start accepting other data from 
> other agencies, he could easily see 100 Terabytes of data inside of a 
> decade.  He said, probably so, if not more.  These quantities of data 
> bring some interesting problems to the concept of making it permanent 
> and backed up and accessible.  From my own painful experience, I find 
> it hard to consider any data on a hard disk drive permanent.  I've had 
> all the data on a hard drive vanish once due to a mistake I made.  I 
> spent the rest of the night after quitting time restoring that computer.
>
That's why the mirroring and backup. Hopefully administered by 
professionals.
Hope they verify the backups, and assure that they actually contain what 
they should and are in fact retrievable...

fun, fun, fun!
Jay

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