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by c4h8o3del 2909 days ago
> If you truly value an photo, make a proper print, archival grade tint, archival grade paper.

Or you could parity-pad your backups so even 20% corruption is still recoverable and periodically renew them. Several orders of magnitude cheaper.

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Then there is a house fire and your computers are destroyed and you're in a coma. Would your spouse know how to retrieve your wedding photo from your parity-padded offsite backups? Does anyone in your life know where they are, and the access information, and the encryption key/password, and how they're organized, and how to find specific content within them?