It's funny, but true, that microfilm is falling off as being acceptable.  After I explain to my clients why microfilm is preferred, they often nod their head and give me the grin reserved for aged.  Backup is NOT archiving. Backup solutions provide for data protection and recovery, while archiving provides data retention and retrieval, as well as proof of chain-of-custody against every record.

Long term archiving of e-records requires continual migration.  Probably at least every 5 years, depending on the storage media and environmental conditions.  That's assuming that you have a suitable file format that may last a long time (tiff, ascii, pdf/a).


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>I am having an increasingly hard time selling microfilming as the only way to keep corporate records permanently. People >seem to think that electronic records are permanent as long as they are backed up daily, weekly, monthly by the dept >that runs the corporate computer servers.

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