Quick question

Consider a national archive

Yes

If it were to be burnt up. Would to prevent the damages in the future would you have copies of the archive, or a database?

Its gotta be 1 or the other not both

Yes

I’m petty sure they already have a database of all that for that exact reason

Ffs even some of the Vatican’s archives have been made digital

Mainly cause digital is more reliable way of preservation

Well ye, but it's either physical copies only or a database.

Well

They keep the physical originals

And a database

No the choice is either 1 or the other

Oh well I’d say a database

Why?

Much more reliable way of preservation, physical copies are nice but inefficient and more susceptible to loss or destruction and a bitch to organize

An agent with a neodymium magnet or a ballistic country could emp the nation and wipe the electronics tho

An agent could burn down original copies with a match

What’s your point , overall a database is a much safer way and will progressively get safer

Copies are still just copies tho, he burns the copies n we have the originals and create an underground network underneath the warehouses the original documents or another set copies are held, with the true originals somewhere else

I still think a database is easier

We could copy a database so easily

Copying multiple copies physically is way more intensive

A process is a process but when all is said and done a job is done.

Doesn’t change the fact that physical copies are way more inefficient and easier to destroy and lose

Anyways gtg take care Joey

Alrighty bud

A database is terrible for long term storage

First, the physical support can deteriorate. Then the connectors of the storage medium can become obsolete. You need electricity and the correct hardware to read information

A database is good to have, but it must always be backed up by physical copies

Could always do what that one time capsule did

Put tons of data on some kind of engineered diamond disk, then seal it away with a machine that can read it, and all the instructions to build that thing that can read it, including how to gather the materials

Also a good option.

As long as it doesn't need electricit

If I remember correctly it was a self-powering device of some sort, either solar or a basic generator

A lot of those things bank on whatever future society at least having electricity as a baseline

The third option was to house stone tablets of every legislative doctrine lmao

Not that bad of an option, really

And it would be held in storehouses square miles in size

They could nano-engrave it and attach an optical microscope