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Serious question: Why go to so much trouble to back up your blu-ray rips? Why not just keep the original discs in a binder / on a spindle, and re-rip them if your hard drive dies?



I have over 400 movies, and about 30 complete TV series. Ripping movies isn't so bad, takes about 40 minutes on my laptop, but ripping TV series is a huge pain in the ass.

Episodes appear to be stored in no particular order on Blu-ray, so I end up having to open the video file, pray for a title card, and match that against an episode order list on Wikipedia.

For some shows (like most British shows) this isn't too bad, since there's a very small number of episodes so re-ripping doesn't take too long. For other shows (e.g. Adventure Time), there's a million episodes, and correctly labeling them takes a lot of effort that I do not want to duplicate.

The thing is...I have re-ripped all my blu-rays. Twice. Because I didn't know what I was doing with ZFS and kept breakingu cluster. I don't really want to do it again.




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