Research On Off-Site Backup Of Archives

Wenchuan earthquake in may 2008, the Zhouqu large flash floods landslides in August 2010 and other natural disasters not only brought serious disasters to the people, caused great loss of property, and gave our archives unprecedented hit, many valuable files in the affected areas were completely destroyed. In addition, as society continues to accelerate the process of information, the number of digital files has been increasing exponentially. Compared to paper files, the digital file has many weaknesses, just as information stored instability, high dependence of information use, easy to leak, vulnerable to computer virus infection. The digital file will soon become the dominant form of modern digital archive file, however, the digital archive file's safe custody is not optimistic.File as the original records of human social activities, is not just a major national and regional cultural wealth, but also a nation's historical memory. How to protect files safe and effective use has been placed in front of us. Facing to various disasters, we must strengthen the awareness of risk prevention. Off-site backup of files is undoubtedly a safe and effective use of reliable measures.In this paper, the principle and requirements of off-site backup files are outlined, and the traditional methods and modern methods of off-site backup files are analyzed in detail, files office and public archives office how to select the file off-site backup locations are discussed. On the construction model of off-site backup site, as the files office and public archives office play different role in the Archives Work, they chose different model in the actual construction. Finally, we talked about the implementation of the backup site, the important part of off-site backup files, backup site should strengthen management of the implementation process which is related to the actual role of the backup file to play. In addition, the paper also analyzes several relevant important cases hoping to play some reference to the work of off-site backup files.