Best Practices For Long Term Storage Of Optical Media (For Archival, Backup)
Channel: Daniel Rosehill
Date: 2022-06-09

In today's optical media and storage deep dive, I take a look at two sets of guidelines for the safe long-term storage of optical media - these days primarily Blu-Rays and M-Discs but also DVDs and CDs.

Sources:

1: Council on Library and Information Resources (CILR):

https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec5/

2: Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs, ande Blu-rays (Canadian Conservation Institute Notes 19/1):

https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html


** Timestamps **

00:00 - Intro
01:21 - Introduction to CLIR standards
04:36 - Optical media storage standards
15:23 - Canadian / CCI recommendations

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By: Daniel Rosehill 

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