Of course, there are no guarantees against fire, floods, earthquakes, and riots. New skills will be needed for recovering lost or weird data. Patrons will tax your creativity to the limit with requests for new and ever changing digital solutions. Another problem area is related to the perception that electronic files often do not look inherently valuable. At least blueprints looked like work had been expended in making them.
Floppy disks look like they cost less than a dollar.
You cannot tell by looking that the contents of a disk actually represents hundreds of hours of work and would cost thousands of dollars to replace, or that the diskette is empty and you kept the wrong one. The problems associated with keeping electronic data are essentially the same as those associated with keeping any other large files. It is difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. The information may be incomplete or inaccurate. Even though the computer has occasionally been touted as a possible resolution for these issues, it really is not.