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Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes?
An anonymous reader writes Now that I've spent close to a month digitizing a desk drawer's worth of VHS tapes, deinterlacing and postprocessing the originals to minimize years of tape decay, and compressing everything down to H.264, I've found myself with a hard drive full of loosely organized videos. They'll get picked up by my existing monthly backup, but I feel like I haven't gained much in the way of redundancy, as I thought I would. Instead of having tapes slowly degrade, I'm now open to losing entire movies at once, should both of my drives go bad. Does anyone maintain a library, and if so, what would they recommend? Is having them duplicated on two drives (one of which is spun down for all but one day of the month) a good-enough long term strategy? Should I look into additionally backing up to optical discs or flash drives, building out a better (RAIDed) backup machine, or even keeping the original tapes around despite them having been digitized?
Upload them to youtube! The internet never forgets, apparently.
Don't see the point. You can get jerry maguire on blueray.
If they are naked vids of you and your GF, the Internet will gladly archive millions of copies.
Literally punching in what I suggested into Google yields this Slashdot discussion as the 2nd result
http://ask-beta.slashdot.org/s...
Whodathunkit?
Whodathunkit?
A link to Slashdot Beta the new goatse.cx?
Of course its rejected. Bacon is the only way! (Sausage is for Emacs users).
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They're both still vulnerable to supernovae. You should have at least one backup in another galaxy.
Fun fact, the real reason for the Voyager mission was someone wanted a permanent backup of William Shatner singing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". You didn't ever see the back of that record they included with Voyager, did you... now you know why.
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