Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-03-07 19:54, jdd wrote:
Le 03/03/2016 22:29, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
It simply can't be done reliably. If you need to keep an archive of logs, it has to be plain text, perhaps compressed, so that they can be kept anywhere and retrieved anywhere, without special tools. Say, keep logs in CDs, for instance. true, but are you sure it can't be done?
Quite!
You can not archive for long term a binary database on a different media. You need to also archive with it the software needed to read it.
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