@SamPatt Good post, including the clip of grandma's anecdote.

It would be a good idea to add a final step of burning the videos to M-disc. SSDs and spinning platter drives aren't reliable for long-term storage. You could use a tape drive if the file sizes are too large, but M-disc lasts longer and doesn't require pro hardware to read.

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canpan 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I use M-disc and I am sure the discs will stay safe for a long time. What I worry about are the drives! It seems the business of making drives is not profitable. So companies exit or reduce.

	▲	thomassmith65 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The author managed to find a decades-old Digi8 camcorder in working order. M-disc is readable by a standard DVD-ROM/Blu-Ray drive. The industry has manufactured many, many more DVD-ROM/Blu-Ray drives than it ever made Digi8 camcorders, and they have fewer moving parts. If you're concerned with finding an M-disc burner, I share the same concern. If you're concerned with finding an M-disc reader, there's less reason to worry than with any other archival media formats.

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jedberg 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I assume the backup is the copy in R2.

	▲	thomassmith65 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's better than nothing. Personally, I wouldn't consider it archival storage, so much as the possibility that 20 years from now Cloudflare (or a holding company) pays me $100 compensation for my lost data!

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gambiting 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just fyi, you can just use BDXL discs(get them while you still can!) they use technology identical to M-Discs and should last just as long.