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In Reply to: RE: "Permanent" back-up for music and pictures posted by MylesJ on January 03, 2024 at 12:45:18
Are you concerned with having backups of your music or a long term archive solution? There is a difference.
My question would be, why would you want to archive your music for that long? Will you be here in 50 years? 1000 years?
If your answer is to pass your music collection on to your heirs my question would be is your technology choice something that will be around 50 years from now? Will someone still be making a player for those M discs? Will the player to computer interface (USB?) be around 50 years from now? Storage media and computer interfaces change. Look back 50 years to today and you'll see a landscape littered with dead-end and useless archival media and devices. Will your heirs even want your music?
Music backups on the other hand only need to last your lifetime and you will likely update your backup technology choices over the years as the technology evolves. There are several uncomplicated and viable choices for music backup already mentioned including:
- A couple cheap offline hard disks (and/or solid-state storage) un-powered and stored away in multiple different safe locations... in a drawer, in a safe deposit box, at a relatives home, etc.
- A cloud based service or two or three. Store music up on Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. Let them worry about replacing their failed disks and updating their underlying technology.
Is your music collection static? Are you still adding to it? If you're still adding to it I would think you would want storage media that is no-brainer easy and fast to add to (write to). Disk drives and solid-state storage come to mind, not cumbersome jewel cases full of slow writing optical discs.
And we didn't even mention 'hi-res' streaming services. I'm not talking crappy MP3's. If I lost ALL of my backed up music I wouldn't shed a tear. 99% of the music I enjoy is readily available for streaming in high quality 'hi-res' on Qobuz, Tidal, Apple Music, and others.
P.S. For digital pictures I have just about everything stored up on Apple iCloud with family sharing enabled. If I croak over dead tomorrow all of my pictures are still there for family members accessible from their phones, tablets, and computers. Not just Apple/Mac. Any PC with web browser can access iCloud.
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Abe Col!ins - I came across the M discs when looking for media for a family project. I got negatives and movies of family and friends from the 1920s until digital imaging took over. I had them digitized and sent them on thumb drives to my brother and sisters for Christmas. We will get details about each picture and scene and write a script for it. So, yes, I am looking for something that will be around long after I am. I am presuming that archivists will be able to covert cd/dvd/BR formats in jpeg, mpeg, and wav files to the then current technology. I figure a disc that will reliably survive most temperature and humidity conditions without using or requiring electricity for 50 years is a good idea.
My music files are on an SD chip, a thumbdrive, and on a Synology NAS with mirrored 8TB drives. My New Year audio resolution is to get Qobuz working now that I am happy with performance of the digital side.
"I figure a disc that will reliably survive most temperature and humidity conditions without using or requiring electricity for 50 years is a good idea."
True unless the device to read the discs 50 years from now is no longer in vogue and cant' be found. I'm not trying to be a naysayer. It's a huge problem but not so much with the life of the media but the availability of the technology and device to read it 50 years from now. Will it still be readily available?
I think one solutions is to keep migrating the data (photos) to the then current technology every several years. So it's really up to your heirs and their heirs to maintain over the decades after you're long gone.
You can also upload your photos into a couple cloud services from larger well established companies and give access to family members to pass down over the generations. Just a thought.
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