If I were being properly rigorous I'd be burning three copies and putting two of them in different physical places.
Printing out the occasional photo book of our favorites is also a part of the strategy - if our grandkids want to see photos of our lives after we're dead, they won't need to worry about lapsed hosting bills or ancient storage technology. They can just look at the book.
Obligatory reference to my rant about data preservation:
Plus one to this. A Blu-ray is durable, maintenance free and most importantly extremely common. Anyone can use one and this will likely be true for a long time. There will be people around who can get data off Blu-ray’s for an exceedingly long time.
But printed images are the ultimate. They require no extraction whatsoever.
If I were being properly rigorous I'd be burning three copies and putting two of them in different physical places.
Printing out the occasional photo book of our favorites is also a part of the strategy - if our grandkids want to see photos of our lives after we're dead, they won't need to worry about lapsed hosting bills or ancient storage technology. They can just look at the book.
Obligatory reference to my rant about data preservation:
http://howicode.nateeag.com/data-preservation.html