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Best way to store audio recordings? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Brok3n-Native@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Me and my partner have taken to putting a recording on in the background whenever we have important conversations / do something fun like movie marathons or gaming sessions. We often listen back a few months later and are grateful because we capture so many amazing moments that we otherwise would completely forget.

I have a ton of these recordings and I’m saving the most special ones. This is still about 200 hours of recordings. But they’re my most prized possessions.

I’m new to this world and my research seems to indicate that burning these recordings to multiple discs and then storing them (perhaps even burying them in the garden?!), along with storing on 3 different formats is the way to go. Is this correct? Or is storing that amount of hours on a CD going to be laborious?

Appreciate any help.

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[–] shinobi441@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I’m no expert and new to this sub but I’ve been making music for 10 years and have amassed 2TB of .wav files that I use for music production.

I store these on an 8TB HDD.

The second copy is an automated backup that occurs every morning at 4AM to an 18TB HDD using Veeam Agent (not Backup and Recovery!), which is free!

I am currently working on also backing the 8TB HDD up to the cloud via BackBlaze.

This system works great for me!