DON'T PANIC.

Ok, how about this:

3 locations in different areas:

* Locked storage room for paper(tape) storage
* Virtual Machine image off-site
* Local office file server

*) Scan and process documents in the local office storing the documents on the local server.
*) Make sure your local and remote server are running an encrypted filesystem on top of a RAID with mirroring.
*) Set up an rsync cron job to sync your virtual machine to the local office fileserver
*) Then archive the paper documents daily or weekly or monthy (you could even in parallel do tape backups)

This sort of set up would not be expensive for a small amount of storage (i.e. office) and will cover you on fire protection, original retention, etc.

Perl would be better.

p.s. I don't want to here any of this Perl is ugly crap either - it's not my fault I don't need my language to -make- me write readable code. A good Perl programmers code is readable anyways.

sorry for the poor formatting - I hit submit instead of "continue editing" :)

Before jumping into some gauntlet of distributed (or aggregated or what ever you want to call it) JavaScript testing. Shouldn't there be a FOSS [cross]platform for unit testing JavaScript under multiple "rendering kits/engines" that can be plugged into Rake, TAP or Nose or any other unit testing harness.
For most applications things like Selenium are more trouble or cost to much money then they are worth. I would like to see something that would allow me to test my JS code across multiple browsers with a simple "make test" within my build environment. Of course there are things like JSLint and Rhino etc... but they don't really handle the issue of making the tests easy to write and run (which means dev's will actually write the tests) on top of Rhino not really representing an actual or even a mock of a particular browsers DOM. I don't relish the idea of having to build an special application into my test harness and then direct my browser to a URL in order to run my JavaScript unit tests. There are plenty of systems out there that compile test reports across multiple platforms from a standard harness (CPAN Testers for one). The problem is not test reporting - it's having an easy way to write and run the tests.

I rather save the $$$ :)