I've always used CDs then when spinning storage got so cheap I just end up keeping lot of stuff on spinning disks + having backups on separate drives. But there is always the risk of accidental deletation or corruption that I may not notice and then it ends up overwriting backups too, overall it still does not feel like it's truly "archived" if it's just sitting on live disks.
So been thinking I need to start archiving on cold storage again. Just wondering what's everyone using for that these days, is optical media still the way to go? CDs, DVDs, Blurays?
The amount of data I want to archive is not necessarily that large. Pictures, code etc and stuff I like to archive for historical/nostalgia purposes.
I suppose having multiple copies does not hurt either, maybe do DVDs and hard drives?
I have a bunch of archived data on CDs as well that is probably pushing 15 years, crazy how time flies... so I will probably want to re-archive that as well.
So been thinking I need to start archiving on cold storage again. Just wondering what's everyone using for that these days, is optical media still the way to go? CDs, DVDs, Blurays?
The amount of data I want to archive is not necessarily that large. Pictures, code etc and stuff I like to archive for historical/nostalgia purposes.
I suppose having multiple copies does not hurt either, maybe do DVDs and hard drives?
I have a bunch of archived data on CDs as well that is probably pushing 15 years, crazy how time flies... so I will probably want to re-archive that as well.