Constructed by the Ptolemys in the third century B.C., this citadel of learning was the “brain and heart of the ancient world” (Sagan, Cosmos), until its final destruction seven centuries later, 
preceding the Dark Ages and a millenium of cultural decline and societal collapse.
The library contained upwards of half a million volumes, at a time when each book was created or copied by hand. Many of the works were irreplaceable. Today, not a single scroll remains. One might argue this was the greatest data loss in history.
Today, the entire text contents of this great library could fit on a 500GB pocket-drive costing under a hundred pounds.
In our modern world, new data is created at an ever increasing rate. As an example, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first webpages in December 1990. Eighteen years later, Google announced that Google Search had discovered one trillion unique URLs.
So what data should we preserve for the future and how should we do it?
The jury is still out on what forms of modern data storage can survive as long as the cave paintings of Lascaux. We just haven’t been doing this long enough (as a society) to find out.
On a more personal scale, business data splits roughly into two categories: archived material and currently shared live information of value. As a stakeholder in your business, you need to consider the effects of loss of each of these – how would you rebuild your own library? What would be the consequence of failing to do so?
Our role in your disaster recovery plan is to fill the gaps. Data loss is never timed for your convenience, multiple systems can break down simultaneously, RAID systems can fail. Take a note of our phone number. When your plans let you down, we can help by recovering your data and rescue you from your own Dark Ages.
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