We’ve all sustained painful data losses at some point or another. After a number of years, you start to realize that you’re tired of getting sucker punched, and that you have the skill and knowledge to solve the problem once and for all. I’m going to outline here a relatively simple strategy to keep a set of data alive for the rest of your life.
This article is meant to give broad strokes on the strategy. I’m going to gloss over things that may seem non-trivial, only because they are all well documented elsewhere. Nothing a little googling on your part won’t solve, and it will help keep the information here somewhat platform independent. I will get into more specific technical details about my implementations in later posts.