During a recent move I lost my entire DVD & Blu-ray collection, built up over almost two decades. I am trying to slowly rebuild my library and this time I want to make sure I have back ups!
I’ve got a MacBook Air and just ordered a Pioneer BDR-XS07TUHD drive which I believe will work in LibreDrive Mode. I am planning to buy the first box sets a few at a time and use MakeMKV to initially only back up mirror copies to an external hard drive. Extracting these to unencrypted MPEG2 and transcoding would come at a later stage as it will take up much more time.
The question I have is this: As long as MakeMKV doesn’t throw up any errors during the initial back up process, would this mean that there were no faults with the discs at all? I won’t be able to watch everything to check at this stage, and if later there was a playback error, skipping or an episode couldn’t be played for some reason, I wouldn’t then be able to go back to the seller for an exchange anymore if the 30 day return period had already passed.
Simply put, could I be certain that everything will later transcode and play without any issues as long as there were no error messages during the initial copy process?
Thanks a lot for any confirmation you can give me!
Backup to Hard Drive Integrity Question
Re: Backup to Hard Drive Integrity Question
Yes, MakeMKV makes it obvious if a copy does not work right.
Have you thought about the implications of storing a large amount of data on hard drives? Bit rot? Drive failures? Power outages? etc?
You're rightly concerned about things working when you come back around to trying to play and/or transcode your rips. A lot can happen to data sitting on a hard drive over time.
Have you thought about the implications of storing a large amount of data on hard drives? Bit rot? Drive failures? Power outages? etc?
You're rightly concerned about things working when you come back around to trying to play and/or transcode your rips. A lot can happen to data sitting on a hard drive over time.
Re: Backup to Hard Drive Integrity Question
Thank you so much for confirming!
And yes, losing everything once has made me really think about how best to protect my library going forward. I will mirror the backups to a second drive and replace both of them every few years.
That way I will have the original discs, two backup drives as well as eventually all of the transcoded files on my devices.
Hopefully, that should do the trick!
And yes, losing everything once has made me really think about how best to protect my library going forward. I will mirror the backups to a second drive and replace both of them every few years.
That way I will have the original discs, two backup drives as well as eventually all of the transcoded files on my devices.
Hopefully, that should do the trick!