alt Hacker News>I've been weary of using rewritable media for some time now as a consequence
I briefly considered using bluray disks as a backup for my photos and other critical docs. But getting a decent bluray burner seems not so easy these days with most production winding down. Next best thing looks like the "object lock" feature on object store services that prevents deleting objects for a certain time.
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I bought a tape library for my backups, but that's probably an overkill.
On the other hand, LTO-5 drives are now pretty affordable. And each tape cartridge holds around 2Tb of data for about $20.
> Next best thing looks like the "object lock" feature on object store services that prevents deleting objects for a certain time.
Lol, no. "As of today we are closed. Goodbye."
Especially considering what giving even a two weeks now considered "generous".
I pretty much instantly wrote off physical media because I know I won't reliably move it to a separate location. If I'm going to have backups, I want ones that are not within fire/flood range of my computer.
In terms of preventing "oops" moments, I'm mainly relying on software (restic) for that, where I trust that (A) backups always append data rather than replacing and (B) it's logic works for marking which data to purge based on rules is accurate. [0]
[0] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html#remo...