[game_preservation] [Monthly SIG Roundup] May 2009

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

Little late to this party (was wrapped up in end of the semester doins - catching up on email now), but I've heard of folks using: 

CleverSafe: http://www.cleversafe.com/
Amazon S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
and of course Iron Mountain: http://www.ironmountain.com/index.asp

And for any services, here's a questionaire to make them answer: http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digital/downloads/QuestionstoAskProvidersofDigitalStoragefinal.pdf

(NEDCC is one of the "go to" organizations for preservation/convervation)

Do we have any idea what their budget looks like in terms of data preservation, and how much data they have? Since it's "international," are their international partners that would be willing to host an offsite backup? If the amt of data is small enough (1TB or under) it would probably be worth it just to get folks willing to host regular incremental backups on 3 different continents and do simple integrity checks -- doesn't hafta be too sophisticated!

Of course, I have no idea what the background to this discussion is, so I could be way off base.

Cheers,
Rach

On Wed, 13 May 2009 16:51:05 -0400, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:


> Oh, also one thing; if anyone has any ideas on good 3rd party backup and  

> storage places (or if you can offer such a service free of charge to the  

> IGDA) that'd be awesome. As far as I know they'll be staying with  

> USA-base Pair hosting, so that might need to be taken into account, but  

> I'd certainly like to see the data secured by something other then a  

> RAID array and perhaps partial backup, or whatever is currently assumed  

> to work.

>

> Andrew

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