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Originally Posted by grumbles
With cheap DVD (and not so cheap Blu-ray) writers and really cheap media (DVD blanks are well under a dollar and Blu-ray blanks are under two) there is no reason not to backup. My Calibre library fits on a dual layer DVD (but a rewriteable Blu-ray is more convenient.) If the data is important, I keep backups of my photographs, parity files add a degree of security. Note that parity files like par2 only protect data sectors but not the file system. For the truely paranoid, a utility like DVDisaster creates parity of the entire disc including the file system. But then those parity files need to be protected.
There are many things that don't need to be protected or saved but what does need to be saved has to be saved well.
It's also essential to label the discs. Unlike printed material, you just can't look at it to see what it is. I keep finding far too many discs lying around that I have no idea what is on them.
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I always give a disc a label then catalog it with a catalog program. So I can find what I needed. I just bought a Portable DVD writer for my laptop so I can start backing up things from it.