Alright so I’m both a physical media freak and a data hoarder, and I generally want to get into making my own torrents of very, very niche movies and TV shows. Trouble is, one BD is very flimsy and data can be even flimsier. I want to duplicate my BluRays and burn them onto other BluRay discs but I’ve heard that this generally makes the duplicate unreadable because of copy protection.
Is there any specific guide out there that does this or teaches it? I’m not really planning on becoming a bootlegger but a sneakernet of 50-100 disks in boxes is a hell of a lot less startup cost than LTO or even HDDs
This doesn’t make sense. You can’t seed a torrent from a Blu-ray. I mean technically you could, but you’d only be able to do one per drive at a time.
And the storage density of a drive is much higher than a Blu-ray disc. You can fit far more movies on one hard drive.
Also keep in mind that burned discs have a much shorter lifespan than commercially pressed discs, like 10-30 years. Commercial pressed discs should last 100+.
m-discs have a conservative lifespan of 100 years
I’ve had good success with makemkv for ripping both blu rays and dvs. I’ve not had good success making a duplicate disk though. It can be done but it’s been a very long time. I used to use handbrake in that chain but it got to be too much trouble. I resorted to ripping all my stuff, serving it up digitally, and only taking the disks out when nostalgia hit.
But ya - makemkv and handbrake used to get the job done a long time ago, you can search in that direction. Maybe there’s a newer better way.
Yeah, once you’ve done the REMUX lossless rip, you don’t really need to burn that onto another disk. Just get a few fast SSDs to keep you library on.
Do you mean external drives?
Movies don’t need much speed at all. And HDDs have much better cost/GB than SSDsREMUX files are around 50GB on average. SSDs are portable, don’t destroy themselves if you move them when in use, and don’t require external power.
If you care about local data preservation and you’re storing remuxes you should probably be storing them on a nas, or really just on a raid array. This allows for error correction due to the parity stripes and everything, and provided tolerance for drive failure.
If you were really serious about it, you’d want a mirrored nas offsite, or you’d push encrypted backups to cloud storage or something. But if you care about storing data as long term as possible you absolutely should not be storing the stuff on a single ssd or external drive or anything.
Three copies (a raid mirror and a backup counts), two types of media (drive and tape), one off-site (where it won’t be affected by fire, flood, tornado, earthquake).
A cloud backup gets you all but the local mirror in one go.
Also, it doesn’t count as a backup until you’ve tested a restore and verified it works.
File size doesn’t matter.
Both are portable and wouldn’t be moved while in use.
And yes, you do need a second cord to power a HDD.
But they’re still way Cheeper per GB, and potentially way bigger per drive than SSDs.I have a HDD dock and 3 HDDs I use for backups every month. They work great as portable mass storage.
Maybe look into the AVCHD format? It’s a set specific rules for video files and a folder structure that allows a burned disc to be read by a conventional BluRay player.
With regard to flimsiness, M-disc Blurays and DVDs are capable of serious long-term storage, but they are very expensive. They require an M-disc-capable burner.
No idea why you would want to get precious data out of DRM-riddled physical media and then somehow devalue it again by putting it back into that format.
HDDs make more sense I suppose
Wdym by this:
Trouble is, one BD is very flimsy and data can be even flimsier.
It’s not clear if you want to use bd as a backup to store data or as a way to bootleg physical media.
I have done both and can help you but the former is generally a bad idea.
I use BD to archive personal data. Then send it off site. The data is encrypted, so it can only be accessed with the correct authentication. What’s wrong with that?
Nothing really, but the lifespan of burned BD’s could mean you don’t have access to your data in the future.
if I outlive an m-disc I probably didn’t need the data on it anyway
