I found a cheap online storage plan to use as remote backup (I already have local backups). This means:
- updating Debian on my server to finally use systemd, so that I can run the provided backup tools (it was still on sysvinit because this is a very old debian unstable I never took the time to switch - in the end it was super easy)
- looking into my collections of CDs and dumping them, scanning the booklets, and the first CD case I open also contains a DVD full of videoclips…
(for most of them there is already a good enough scan on discogs.com, that's very helpful, but I have a few oddities)
TRON Legacy soundtrack CD is supposed to have bonus content. Unfortunately, what's on the CD is a 3MB EXE file that has only a link to a dead website. Anyone has a backup of whatever was there?
The Web Archive archived the page but there's a login wall…
http://web.archive.org/web/20101226152622/http://tronlegacy.emiexperience.com/welcome
(yes I know, I should have done this 10 years ago…)
Another one of these discs is a "Copy Controlled" disc, that includes a data partition with an audioeplayer that's supposed to prevent from accessing the audio tracks (quite ineffective, but whatever).
Should I archive that? Anything interesting in there?
Today I archive my old videogames CD. The first one I try has an unreadable file :(
I made a list of what I have so far (and what's missing). So, let me know if you need one of these…
Remember to archive your CD-Rs to a long term storage method!
For some of mine it is already too late (I think I can redownload most of what was on these, fortunately)