Backup to Blue ray that has spanning and encryption? Recommendation?

[skyglider]

After reading this fairly long thread, it's amazing that some folks still think backing up to Bluray discs is better than backing up to external hard drives.

If you think backing up hard drives to Bluray discs is better and safer, please by all means do so. The main thing is that you're happy with your choice. After doing that for a while, don't be surprised if you end up backing up to external hard drives.

Good luck,
Sky

How about both?

 

[Carey Brown]

I've been using WD external drives for 10 years; I've got 8 of them. No problems. However I've had several ODs go bad on me, a couple were bad within a couple of months. I was using gold disks at the time, supposedly good for 100 years.

 

[lemon_juice]

I've been using WD external drives for 10 years; I've got 8 of them. No problems. However I've had several ODs go bad on me, a couple were bad within a couple of months. I was using gold disks at the time, supposedly good for 100 years.

This thread is about blu-ray specifically. Are you talking about your experience with blu-ray discs? Otherwise your post is off-topic. You can't put all optical discs into one bag with generalized statements like this.

 

[tcg550]

If you are spanning 500 GB over a bunch of disks and you need to recover just a few files you will likely need to restore the entire backup and then recover just the files you need.

Unless your backup software has some sort of index function that will restore a few files from a set of disks this is not very practical.

I could be wrong about extracting just a few files so do a little research on restoring from a spanned backup.

 

[Corpy2]

If you are spanning 500 GB over a bunch of disks and you need to recover just a few files you will likely need to restore the entire backup and then recover just the files you need.

Unless your backup software has some sort of index function that will restore a few files from a set of disks this is not very practical.

I could be wrong about extracting just a few files so do a little research on restoring from a spanned backup.

The Power2Go backup softwqare doesn't do spanning, and it encrypts each file individually. It also places an .exe on each disk, so that it stands on its own.

 

[TimR32225]

The OP mentioned in one of his posts that he already bought a boatload of Blu-Ray disks, so I suspect that he probably wants to make use of them.

I personally would not make that choice, but to each his own. I just hope he never has to suffer through trying to restore from optical media after a system failure.

What I have found personally, is anytime I can trade money for time savings, it's usually a good investment. Life is short, and time is the one commodity that none of us can buy more of, at any price.