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A lot of you, like me, were involved to some extent fighting our corner in this affair.
I have an A4 folder with all the info I dealt with.
Letters, the claim forms, Sportsman's Association etc.
How feasible would it be to have all our info stored at a central location for future use?
None of us are getting younger and I wouldn't like to throw it all away.
What do you think?
Tony

mag41uk wrote:A lot of you, like me, were involved to some extent fighting our corner in this affair.
I have an A4 folder with all the info I dealt with.
Letters, the claim forms, Sportsman's Association etc.
How feasible would it be to have all our info stored at a central location for future use?
None of us are getting younger and I wouldn't like to throw it all away.
What do you think?
Tony

How long do you want to store for? And do you mean physical storage or scanned copies? If its worth saving information should be saved. If you don't save, our successors will never know.

http://www.phsdatasolutions.co.uk/services/storage

These look a good bet.

Just thinking out loud...might be worth having a word with Gaz on here?

Storing it in one place is always a bad idea. Data is cheap and having multiple copies of these records, both physical, digital (both on portable storage media and online in servers) is a good way of making sure it doesn't just 'disappear.'

Make sure to also upload it online, if you feel comfortable with doing that, preferably to multiple locations on websites hosted in different countries, especally those with a reputation for being good data havens.

Outsider wrote: Data is cheap

Not for long seemingly.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... emand.html

Hmmm, if Big Brother stopped keeping copies of everything...

dromia wrote:

Outsider wrote: Data is cheap

Not for long seemingly.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... emand.html

That's the fault of Labour and the Coalition ignoring the screaming demand for more power stations over the last 20 years where the white papers spoke of nigh on apocalyptic consequences if new generations of power production weren't built. And that was on population growth figures set out before the rise of mass immigration.

Why not store hard copies or discs at your gun club ?

Dave

Web hosting would be around £40-£50/year for a website backed by cloud-based storage. I think it'd be a brilliant thing to do, to make all these valuable papers and documents available digitally for future generations of shooters.

The question is funding it sustainably...

How much data are we talking about? Dropbox is free up to 2GB and there's nothing to stop you splitting the archive over multiple 2GB chunks.