Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

i think your best bet would just be to brute force it: get a bunch of different media (usb-drives, CDs, hard drives, whatever you can get your hands on and ideally from different brands) and just put the same data on all of them, then wrap in a series of plastic bags that you try to put a vacuum on, put in the most durable water and ideally airtight container you can get your hands on, then again wrap that in some plastic bags because why not.
Then bury all that as deep as you can and surround it in rocks, especially i think you’ll want a bunch of rocks on top of it. And for extra points repeat all this as many times as possible in different locations.

All this is just to compound the chances that at least one of the copies of the data will survive, and even if that fails you’ll hopefully end up with enough data being intact across the different storage mediums that you can piece the data together somehow, i’m not sure how precisely you’d do that but it’s at least possible to figure out so long as the data is there.

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