Why

Why is it easier for me to find my oldest paper letter than my oldest file?

Digital data is lossless, why is it so hard to keep around?

Why don't I have my first program?

Why don't I have my old email?

Layers

Filesystem

Fossil

ZFS

Backup / Archive

• Online Storage
  • http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/31/the-online-storage-gang/
  • DreamHost Files Forever
  • Wells Fargo vSafe
  • rsync.net
  • cleversafe.org
  • Tahoe
  • S3
• Venti
• Project Honeycomb (StorageTek 5800 Open Edition)
• S3
• LOCKSS
• potshards
• drobo

Long Term Archive

Venti Arenas

Paper backup (PaperBack)

Inspiration

http://del.icio.us/jf/storage

Plan 9

LOCKSS

Chord

Distributed Hash Tables

Trementina Base

DataGlyphs (http://www.parc.com/research/projects/dataglyphs/)

IBM 1360 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360)

LVM