I've backed up on just about everything going back to QIC-150s, but today I just use a set of 4Tb drives that I rsync A/B copies to and rotate offsite. That gives me several generations as well as physical redundancy.
The iteration before that, I made multiple sets of Blu-Rays, which became unwieldy due to volume, but was write-once with multiple physical generations. I miss that, but at one point I needed to restore some files and even though I used good Verbatim media, a backup from a couple months prior was unreadable. All copies had a mottled appearance and the drive that wrote it (and verified) was unable to read it. Did finally find a drive that would read it, but finally pushed me over the edge.
I wonder how the author's 18yo media will compare to modern 5yo media. It's been a long time since we have had the rock solid Taio Yuden gold disks ...
This made me smile. I have a very similar configuration. Simple but effective. The only thing that worries me bitrot might get me. Then again, my body will bitrot, too. So no point worrying too much about some random data in some turbulence in time.
I've backed up on just about everything going back to QIC-150s, but today I just use a set of 4Tb drives that I rsync A/B copies to and rotate offsite. That gives me several generations as well as physical redundancy.
The iteration before that, I made multiple sets of Blu-Rays, which became unwieldy due to volume, but was write-once with multiple physical generations. I miss that, but at one point I needed to restore some files and even though I used good Verbatim media, a backup from a couple months prior was unreadable. All copies had a mottled appearance and the drive that wrote it (and verified) was unable to read it. Did finally find a drive that would read it, but finally pushed me over the edge.
I wonder how the author's 18yo media will compare to modern 5yo media. It's been a long time since we have had the rock solid Taio Yuden gold disks ...