Comment on What's your contingency plan for the apocalypse?
Australis13@fedia.io 1 week ago
Eventual goal - solar with battery backup for the house with isolation ability from the grid. Here in Aus you can have (1) solar tied to grid, (2) solar with batteries tied to grid, and (3) solar with batteries with a grid isolation switch. Only (3) allows you to power your house when the grid goes down.
If my place gets flooded then, due to the terrain, it's going to be a much bigger problem than data loss (even if it is all my family photos and videos). I think that will be the least of my concerns at that point. That said, I do have off-site backups and I'm also locally archiving to m-discs, so both the flood and EMP problem are not insurmountable in that respect.
Probably the one thing I do need to do is print out a lot of the more recent photos so I have hard copies of ones I want to keep.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Minidiscs?
Australis13@fedia.io 1 week ago
M-Discs are a specialised form of DVD and Bluray (DVDs require a burner with M-disc capability) that have a longer life than the usual consumer grade discs. Odds are that they will last longer than the technology required to read them.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Cool, never heard of them. Sounds good for archiving stuff that doesnt need to be stored on HDD’s
Australis13@fedia.io 1 week ago
Yeah, I like to have important data (such as family photos and videos) backed up on two different formats and M-disc BDs provide an acceptable option. There are various blog posts testing them online versus regular discs and they handle a lot more wear and tear (not that mine get subjected to that!), so I'm pretty confident that mine will outlast me.
Entertainment content I'm willing to risk on regular recordable discs/HDD backups if it's important enough to put in the effort (I usually buy the physical disc anyway, so I have the pressed CD, DVD or BD to start with).
Haven't seen a minidisc in ages! I remember some of the cheap IT hardware used to come with those for drivers in the late 2000s.