Research On Off-Site Backup Of Archives

A Ms5.6earthquake happened in Xinjiang on March29,2013, and a5earthquake with the focal depth of11km happened in Dali, Yunnan Province on April17,2013, then two earthquakes of magnitude3happened continuously in Eryuan County, Yangbi county. A earthquake of magnitude7happened in Ya’an city, Lushan County, Sichuan Province, at eight two on April20,2013, followed by several aftershocks. Natural disasters destroyed thoroughly to the file, the file work suffered a hitherto unknown hit. As to the archives department, this is a test of response and prevention capacity for a sudden disaster. Archives are the real history, which are the precious non-renewable resources. Archive is the original record clearly defined information, the characteristic of social, historical and original records to determine its importance. With the development of Archive informatization, digital archives is growing rapidly, while the traditional paper files and emerging electronic data files are facing various threats. Compared to the paper-based archives, digital archives have a shortage of information storage instability. Development of computer hardware and software technology and communication and network technologies will have a direct impact on the safety protection, As it will become the dominant form of modern archives, the problem of safe custody is not optimistic. How to ensure the safety of archives and provide an effective use becomes the focus for archivists. In the face of disasters destruction, to carry out a file backup job is feasible, safe protection of archives is an important strategy.This paper consists of five parts. The first part is the introduction, mainly introduces the research goal, significance and research status, content. And research method and approach will be stated in detail. The second part of the thesis, mainly for file backup elaboration, introduced the concept and development of archives, discusses the feasibility and necessity of archives off-site backup, and5principles of file backup to follow, respectively speaking, the application of economic principles, the principle of diversification, geographically distant principle, long-term adherence to the principle, the principle of flexibility. The third part, according to the irreversible destruction and damage to the sudden disasters on archives, introduces the research status of off-site backup protection in our country, summarizes the existing problems in practice, including the lack of understanding to the importance of off-site backup, the national level strategic support, the lack of clear rules to the important off-site backup, long-term mechanism of file backup is not perfect, the funds problem, no uniform standard for file backup.The fourth part, in view of these problems, the corresponding solutions are as follows:to strengthen the propaganda of the importance of the archives off-site backup,accelerate the top-level design of the important file backup, formulate feasible standards and norms, establish the long-term mechanism, to fully tap the archives value, solve the problem of shortage of funds, fulfill the comprehensive utility of backup file work in various forms. In order to promote the file backup protection research,and make contribution to the achieve protection in our country. The fifth part summarized the importance of the archives off-site backup, Archives the archivist needs to be done agencies the further implement has a long way to go.