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Is Fedora "preservation ready"?
It would be more accurate to say that Fedora is very "preservation friendly." By design, Fedora is intended to be as neutral to specific use cases as possible. It does provide a variety of features that can be used to create a very preservation ready repository. It can automatically create versions of content, calculate and track checksums, keep audit trails, and listen for and act upon events that happen within the repository, and more.
More basically, every Every Fedora object is represented by an XML file that is just a file in the file system, that has all of the preservation metadata about the object mentioned above registered within it. All content is managed as files in the file system. As long at the repository is backed up properly, and all of the files can be restored, a re-builder utility that is provided can completely re-build the running repository from the files. There is no dependency on a database that must be preserved.
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