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The Church's digital storage

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bensonmcconkie
New Member
#1
I do FamilySearch Indexing, and after reading the following article, wondered: How does the Church plan to keep its digital data forever? Especially the data on FamilySearch.org?

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700099147/California-nonprofit-Well-store-digital-data-forever.html
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#2
This old thread may give you some ideas.

Keep in mind the article you point out is about personal data storage which tends to be in one place and/or placed on a shelf for long periods of time. Since FamilySearch is "on-line" system, it's a "live" system that's routinely backed up, updated and professionally managed.
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bensonmcconkie
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#3
RussellHltn wrote:This old thread may give you some ideas.

Keep in mind the article you point out is about personal data storage which tends to be in one place and/or placed on a shelf for long periods of time. Since FamilySearch is "on-line" system, it's a "live" system that's routinely backed up, updated and professionally managed.
Thanks for the link--are there other differences (besides it being on a personal data storage) between what this person is doing, and what large companies/organizations do? I'm just curious.
russellhltn
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#4
bensonmcconkie wrote:are there other differences (besides it being on a personal data storage) between what this person is doing, and what large companies/organizations do? I'm just curious.

Nothing jumped out at me as being obviously different.
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aebrown
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#5
bensonmcconkie wrote:I do FamilySearch Indexing, and after reading the following article, wondered: How does the Church plan to keep its digital data forever? Especially the data on FamilySearch.org?

This topic is addressed directly on an interesting video produced by FamilySearch about the Granite Mountain vault. In particular, go to about the 4:00 mark on the second video:
This covers the topic of the digital data for the historical records themselves, but I would think that similar care is taken for other irreplaceable data.
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bensonmcconkie
New Member
#6
aebrown wrote:This topic is addressed directly on an interesting video produced by FamilySearch about the Granite Mountain vault. In particular, go to about the 4:00 mark on the second video:
This covers the topic of the digital data for the historical records themselves, but I would think that similar care is taken for other irreplaceable data.

Great video. Thanks!