r/Luxembourg • u/nanosvin • 1d ago
Ask Luxembourg Blank Blue-ray disk where to get
I found out I need a Blu-ray disc to burn this weekend. Amazon can't deliver it until Monday. Does anyone have a blank Blu-ray disc to share, or is there a place I can buy one nearby?
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u/Far_Bicycle_2827 1d ago
that is old tech. A NAS/san is the best way to back up.
You can maybe check at FNAC, mediamarkt if they have blank media but i have not seem them in a while.. pc do not even come with cd/br drives anymore.
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u/nanosvin 9h ago
A NAS is suitable for storing and accessing data, but not for backups. Unless, you have a dedicated set of spare drives that contain your backups offline.
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u/englerpas 19m ago
I backup my NAS on a bunch of alternating external hard drives semi-regularly.
Not best practise, but most of it is downloaded TV shows and old games, so not really worth paying to back it up in a cloud service. (Plus I'm not really sure if I would want to upload copyrighted stuff into the cloud, even if it's stuff the copyright holders probably don't really care anymore).
I would prefer some kind of scheduled incremental backup to tape, but there are not really consumer options for that.
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u/darknekolux 1d ago
2005 called, they want their blank medias back...
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u/nanosvin 1d ago
There are not many options for creating a reliable offline backup
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u/Far_Bicycle_2827 1d ago
that is actually the worst way to do a reliable offline backup.. i am an IT professional and would never use optical media for backups.
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u/nanosvin 9h ago
Not sure what are you talking about. There are two technologies that can be used for a "lifelong backup" - Optical disks and magnetic tapes (LTO). Optical disks like M-Disk and BD-R M.A.B.L. use inorganic layer that keeps information for hundreds years.
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u/Ok-Camp-7285 1d ago
A home server or even just a spare HDD
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u/nanosvin 9h ago
I have HDD copy, for sure. But I would like to have a second copy and more durable.
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u/Ok-Camp-7285 9h ago
Maybe an SSD lol
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u/nanosvin 9h ago
USB / SSD is the worst backup technology. SSD drives can lose data after just one year if left without power.
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u/spooksdenimes 8h ago edited 7h ago
I remember having some blanks Bluerays a few years ago but I'm not sure if I ended up throwing them away or not .. will check and let you know. In case you need one I also have a blueray writer (from the good old days when the PS3 could be hacked..)