How To Prevent Damage to Your DVDs and Blu-Rays

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Originally Posted by drush9999

Even the backup isn't safe

Nothing is safe. Meteor hits Earth today, you have bigger problems.

But in terms of probability, backups can be made arbitrarily "safe". For example, always follow the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy.

Most people never make backups. Ever.
Of those that do, hardly anyone ever keeps them updated.
Of those that do, hardly anyone ever keeps a copy in another location.
Of those that do, hardly anyone ever updates the offsite copy.

Want your data safe? Make frequent backups, keep (at least) an updated backup somewhere other than where you do your work.

I use a little waterproof case (not Pelican, but similar off-brand) holding a "backup set" of hard drives. They're identical copies of the drives in my home server. I have two of these, and one lives at the office.

This sounds complicated, but it's easy. Trivial. And it's not just holding media backups, it has family photos, scans of important documents, etc. Everyone should do something like this, but I don't know anyone else who does. Oh well.