Whats the best solution for 'permanent' archiving to bluray?
I'll preface this question with my scenario: I have a massive heap of applications, games, movies, and tv shows that i want to archive to bluray disks and then delete. If I wanted to restore something, I'd like to go into the application, find the file, choose restore and have it prompt me for the disk or tib file I need and then restore it.
I'm scratching my head as to how to set that up...
My first thought was to create a continuous incremental task to a hard drive and then manually burn the split TIB files (starting with the full backup and moving on to subsequent incrementals). But then do I have to copy all the files back to the hard drive everytime I need to create an incremental? (And then burn them all over again?)
My second thought was to create a new single version full backup task each time i need to purge my hard drive of data. But then how can I keep track of where a specific file is in regards to a backup set? I would need some sort of master catalog that knew where all files reside in each backup set, otherwise I'll be hunting around multiple 1st disks trying to find what I'm looking for.
Any thoughts?


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Thanks for the quick response! I totally agree with you, these days, a 1.5TB 2.5" hard drive is about $65 and a 25pc spindle of 50GB blu rays are about $50. I already have a 1TB drive that i keep offline and periodically updated with more important data. Since I already have a spindle of 25 bluray discs, I thought I'd use them a fall back plan for stuff that isn't terribly critical and may not see the light of day for a while. This will let me free up space on that offline drive for more important things. In the past I've had trouble with CD-Rs and less for DVDs but I havent had any issues with bluray yet.
In any case, getting into details, if i create an 'archive' task, run it, then delete the source data, wouldnt any incremental or differential essentailly be another 'full backup' since the original full source material is gone and new stuff is being added? Would I just want to make a series of full backups? Would using the same task for full backups create a new 'version' number or should i create new 'archive' backup tasks each time? Can Acronis keep a master list of all the files that have been backed up by this task and point me to the right TIB/disk when its time to restore?
side note: I was just going to create 50GB vhdx files, fill them with files, burn the vhdx to disc, then create a spreadsheet with a file list and disk number so I don't have to hunt through mutiple versions of backup sets to find what i need.
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