Long-Term Data Storage for Home Users

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Data preservation for home computer users, covering cold media data retention, and required refresh actions, for hard drives, SSDs and flash drives, and optical media. Plus discussion of long-term cloud storage, and family storage audits. For information on how to refresh data on long-term storage, I've a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B7yg7LWiik You may also find relevant the following content: Cyber Security: Back-ups & Encryption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP9GTs1lZs VeraCrypt (for creating encrypted containers for cloud upload): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XshQWFLfwdAQ REFERENCES Digital Preservation Handbook from the Digital Preservation Coalition: https://www.dpconline.org/handbook Digital Preservation Guidance Note from UK National Archives (2008, historic): https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/selecting-storage-media.pdf LTO World Desktop Tape Drives: https://ltoworld.com/collections/desktop-lto-tape-drives CLOUD STORAGE Amazon AWS S3 Glacier: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ Microsoft OneDrive: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/onedrive/ Google One Plans: https://one.google.com/about/plans You can find all of the ExplainingComputers videos on security and backup on this page: https://explainingcomputers.com/security_videos.html More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers And more videos on film and other

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