dvdisaster VS wim-backup

DVDisaster, https://github.com/speed47/dvdisaster

My family has a collection of important pictures, documents, and videos which are currently stored on CD-R, and have been since 2005. Ten out of the ~250 discs have been destroyed by disc rot, but luckily there were redundant copies. I am planning on migrating the collection to BD-R, because they seem much more robust. I'm also going to use ECC to protect the discs (https://github.com/speed47/dvdisaster)

For my optical backups I use this additional software, called DVDisaster. I create image with 10 to 15 % space left and let the program augment the image with recovery data. After that's done, I burn it to optical media.

dvdisaster

dvdisaster has returned to life too.

I hope you use dvdisaster to protect your data. If you use it on an ISO before burning it, you can make a bit-exact recovery in most cases, even discarding the zero padding introduced sometimes on re-ripping the disc and mangling things.

Even with archive-grade media you should use something like dvdisaster to generate error-correction-code (ECC) files for each disk (rule-of-thumb, 20% of each disk should be filled with ECC data. That only leaves you with 80 GB if you are using 100 GB BDXL M DISCs)

https://github.com/speed47/dvdisaster (there's tutorials to show you how this works all over youtube and the internet and the manual)

P2V the Windows OS partition. Use Starwinds converter to get the virtual disk with OS only, attach the drive to the VM as a first boot drive, then boot and check the VMs performance. Remove the old logical Windows OS partition on a 7TB disk once confirm the system runs well from the new virtual disk. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v2v-converter Another tool you can use for the job is Wim-backup. It does the similar to Clonezilla job but under Windows PE. https://github.com/cregx/wim-backup

Here is (hopefully) a clickable link to the repository: https://github.com/cregx/wim-backup

The project can be found here: WIM-Backup