[Gllug] Is this a silly (RAID) notion?

[Riq]

I would like to digress from the topic and expand on the remarks by John 
Hearns about transporting magnetic tapes. I was involved in
similar use of magnetic tapes at CERN in the 60s. The only problem we 
had with temperature was leaving a tape in a car in the sun.
But we had sometimes to bribe maintenance engineers to misalign a tape 
drive to match the drive the tape was written on.

On a more serious note, is anyone doing any research anywhere on how to 
achieve 'infinitely' long-term digital storage?
Has anyone a better idea than just copying data from the 
about-to-be-obsolete medium to the just-become-accepted-as-reliable new 
medium
every few years?
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