Medium term cold storage options?
Summary
A discussion about medium-term cold storage options for small data sets (~1 GB) and the tradeoffs between offline media (optical) and online archival storage (S3/Backblaze Glacier/Backups). Participants share experiences with safes, safety deposit boxes, Syncthing, and cloud backups, offering practical cost estimates and risk considerations for preserving data 5–20 years into the future.