I think you probably need to come up with a long term plan with real 
institutional commitment. Storing files and making sure they are backed 
up is all well and good, but that is only one part of a long term 
digital preservation project. How are you protecting against bit rot? 
what about formats that become obsolete? etc.

We are planning to outsource our longterm digital preservation because 
we do not have the staff to maintain it.

Edward

Edward Iglesias wrote:
> As I was trying to figure out what to do with half a terabyte of
> archival TIFFS it occurred to me that perhaps someone else had this
> problem.  We are starting to produce massive amounts of digital
> objects (videos, archival TIFFS, audio interviews).  Up until now we
> have been dealing with ways to display them to the public.  Now we are
> starting to look at "dark archives" like OCLC's digital archive
> product.  I would welcome any suggestions from those of you who have
> dealt with this on an archival level.  It's one thing to stick the
> stuff up on a server, but then what?  Our CIO suggested storage
> appliances like this one
>
>
> http://www.drobo.com/products/index.php
>
> but I am wary of the proprietary RAID system.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Edward Iglesias
> Systems Librarian
> Central Connecticut State University
>