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Old 12-25-2022, 05:25 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives View Post
Of course, there's the risk that it won't spin up if you leave it off for too long. Digital storage is so finicky.
The LOCKSS project ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") at Stanford takes the always online, geographically distributed approach. It is aimed at libraries and maintains integrity by comparing checksums across all copies and automatically repairing failed copies.

I stumbled on it around 10 years ago and was intrigued, but never really dug into it or kept up with it.

https://www.lockss.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCKSS
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