How do you securely backup your Movies?

Helen Barber

Helen Barber

Helen Barber

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I'm a little lost here.... I have a mixture of 7 internal and external hard drives, all full of movies that I've "legally" backed up

I'm worried about my hard drives failing and would like to add some form of backup.

I do own something called stablebit drivepool, but I'm thinking transfering 100s of movies would take many many weeks!

What do you advise to do?

:)
 
something daft already!! said:
Unless this has changed, I think you will find that there is no way to legally back up your films in the UK. You will be breaking copywrite law of the UK.
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This originally came in around 2003 I think.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29448058

You can make copies of your own media as a backup.

OP: Hard to say really. Assuming there's multiple TB's of data then there's no particularly easy solution to make a backup, not without a lot of cost or time uploading.
 
To disc + a single copy of each on 1 hdd, that's what i'd do. I don't bother buying digital movies as backups are too costly, money and time wise.

Burn a few reliable discs a day, you'll soon get through them.
 
You've got 3 choices.

1) You rip them from the original source again

2) You pay for cloud storage

3) You buy additional hard drives (or other storage mediums) to copy your data to.

Option 1 will take the most time, whereas option 2 and 3 will cost you money.
 
You've got the original discs, there's your backup.

Th other option is to buy something like a NAS with a few large drives in and hook that up to your network or get really slow and pricy with cloud based stuff.
 
rubberduck said:
So if the physical media gets damaged or destroyed the backup is no longer legal?
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Pretty sure the rule is as long as you own the physical media you can have a "backup", if you don't you can't. To stop people ripping copies and then just selling the original on, although obviously doesn't really work in the true sense of a backup.
 
tom_e said:
Pretty sure the rule is as long as you own the physical media you can have a "backup", if you don't you can't. To stop people ripping copies and then just selling the original on, although obviously doesn't really work in the true sense of a backup.
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I suspect with torrenting so easy, the days of people buying dodgy copies might be long gone.
 
I have 2x movie setups in my house TV and projector in the loft.

I think I'm going to mirror downstairs hard drives with upstairs, yes I will physically have to take the data upstairs for backup, but it stops having to use things like Plex etc

:)
 
Helen Barber said:
What windows software would mirror my drives?
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Stablebit that you have is perfect for this, simply set up the amount of redundancy you want and it will do the rest.

If a drive fails, you replace, if the PC dies, all the data on the drives is easily accessible. If PC gets replaced, simply pop the drives in and re-install stablebit and it will be back how it was.

I use the software for various things it's excellent.
 
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