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Digital archiving

About the long-term backup problem.

What kind of data?

  • source code;
  • photographs;
  • music;
  • video;
  • mail;
  • books, papers, etc;
  • administrative data (bank statement, invoices, etc.).

Data format

  • better if not encumbered by any known patents; flac, ogg, png, etc.;
  • popular format: MP3, JPEG, etc.

Space

  • need more and more space;

Where to backup?

On line solution: Nextcloud.

The case of pictures

My solution

  • NAS:
    • all photographs;
    • real-time backup.
  • print as much as possible on quality material;
  • CD/DVD
    • regular backup, but a little more spaced in time (need to waste a lot of time in order to have up to date backups).

You can distribute your photographs (numeric and printed) in your family.

Statistics

Number of photos
1999 35
2001 49
2002 16
2003 26
2004 76
2005 286
2006 308
2007 411
2008 787
2009 612
2010 2905
2011 1935
2012 1719
2013 2297
2014 1571
2015 3050
2016 2216
2017 2161
2018 2471
2019 2130
2020 1845

Before 1999: thousands of analogue photographs (backup on photos album) and 242 photos scanned.

Naming convention

ISO 8601

Transfer your photographs to your computer in 5 steps

  1. transfer on computer with digiKam;
  2. use the KIPI plugin to batch rename all the photographs;
  3. change rights: chmod 700 *.jpg;
  4. geolocalization with KIPI;
  5. tag your photographs.
digital-archiving.txt · Last modified: 2021/06/27 00:54 by cedric