Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Best form of Backup for media.

  • 08-04-2009 7:33pm
    #1
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭


    Q1
    As my collection of media files is growing and I want to be able keep them secure and safe, I'm wondering which is the best form of backup. Online would be too big to upload and then download, DVD's too small and I'm unsure of External hard drives as they can always fail.Don't really know enough about media players with HD's but there size's of 1TB looks promising I'm looking for a long term option just wondering what other people are doing.

    Q2
    I'm using magic DVD ripper to rip my DVD's but I'm finding it slow for ripping I have over 100 DVD's is there any quick programme to rip to AVI or else Its going to take months.

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Probably an external HDD is what will suit you best. If you're worried about drive failure, buy two drives and keep them synced, so they've always got the same data on both.

    The quickest way to backup your DVDs is to rip the raw folders (video_ts, audio_ts) without any conversion. You can basically do this as fast as your drive allows, shouldnt take more than 5 or 10 mins.

    Then, once you've got the raw DVDs on your hard-drive, you can go and queue a bunch of them to encode automatically, overnight etc. Although if you've only got 100 DVDs, you may decide to just leave them be, they'll be about 5-6GB each so 100 will fit on a 1TB drive no problem, and it'll save you a lot of time and hassle encoding.

    I use DVDFab for ripping, and Handbrake for encoding.


  • #3
    fugazied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭fugazied


    You'll probably hate this answer, it's a pain in the butt x.gif

    Your data needs to be in at least 2, preferably 3 forms, at least 1 of those has to be offsite.

    So at a minimum, if it is valuable data it needs to be on DVD and on External hard drives. Ideally you will also have the data in a remote location on either DVDs or a seperate machine.

    If all of the data is in your house, if you get broken into or the house burns down, it's all gone regardless of what backup methods you used, hence the need for offsite storage. DVDs and Hard drives both fail and are volatile so both need to be kept. It's a pain, but the only really safe way to keep it and even then there are cases of 3 data sources all dying.

    At least when we all have high speed net, we should be able to backup to 3-4 offsite locations quickly and easily.


  • #4
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    Both good answers and more or less what i was thinking my self. The backup online option doesn't seem to be a runner yet as 500 GB of information with an upload and download cap of 30Gb would take me nearly 1.5 years.(and the same to download it)

    So minium 2 backup's one onsite one offsite and computer.


Advertisement