> Unfortunately, we're just not doing enough. I don't have an answer, but for > several years I worked for the LOCKSS project at Stanford University. Their > software is open source, and is used to archive online academic journals in a > distributed, fault-tolerant peer to peer network (their primary research was > on how to prevent bitrot and enable automatic format migration, for example). > With some effort, it could be retooled into a general-purpose software > archive, but I don't think anybody has ever seriously proposed doing that. I > only point it out as inspiration for one possible way to do things. > > Until we have a better answer, we're just at the mercy of bitrot, and we have > to accept that.
Unless, of course, you have a mainframe shop and figured all this shit out back in the 1960s. -- Will
