![]() When I read data from these backup disks in 2021, I had a 100% success rate! What I didn’t realise at the time, was that all these CDs and DVDs would become a grand experiment of reliability and longevity. Its hard to tell the oldest DVDs, but I think 2004 or 2005 was when I moved from CDs to DVDs for backups.įinally, the DVD era came to an end in 2009, giving way to HDDs and the cloud. ![]() The oldest CD I can find is from 2003, containing a snapshot of all my documents at that time. Originally, they were burned to CD-Rs, but I migrated all my CDs to DVDs at some point and discarded the original CDs. My oldest backups are from the end of the year 2000, and are now on DVD+Rs. With particular attention on the reliability of optical disks - BluRay disks and M-Disks. Archives to triplicate BluRay disks, indexed via WinCatalog, two copies stored offsite.ĭiscuss the reasons why I’ve moved back to optical disks as a key part of my backup strategy.Windows File History to my TrueNAS for particular content that doesn’t live on OneDrive. ![]() Cloud based backups using OneDrive & BackBlaze.Copy+Paste archives to external (offline) disks.įive years later, in 2022, my strategy has changed to:. ![]()
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