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(Originally posted to Cohost on Mon, Sep 4, 2023, 2:21 PM)
I have some discs a family member burnt in 2010. One contained our
pirated Wii games, our Wii NAND backups, his Firefox bookmarks, music,
and even my old Super Mario Bros. X levels. I've backed these up with
ddrescue, and compressed them with gzip.
Now, I love keeping a record of my memories (in the form of photos, videos, screenshots, or gameplay recordings) to revisit them. But guess where these records lasted the longest? The discs, my physical notebooks, old emails (where I often overshared), and my cloud storage. (Relating to physical notebooks, you should read this blog post.)
On the contrary, my internal and external hard drives, USB flash storage, and SD cards are where my data goes to die. My data has a very short lifespan because:
I lose some things while moving from place-to-place
I forget to backup everything because it's so confusingly organized
in the case of hard drives, it catastrophically fails
So here's my idea.
I counted 52 blank DVDs (maybe 54, but they're a different brand...), but there might be more than that. I'm thinking of the idea of making several "themed backups" which include different things on them, like my Minecraft worlds, recordings during a certain year, music or ROMs, etc, heavily compressed (whether it be losslessly or not) to make as much fit as possible. This might not be limited to my discs either; it's just a fun way to organize things.
EDIT (2023-09-05): Reworked the post.