 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. This is gonna be a short video and Arguably not necessary, but as I am open sourcing my backup and data preservation approach And this is something I really care about. I am spelling out all the little details So in this video, I want to show you guys what I'm doing regarding Backup from an NASC to an end disk M disc. Excuse me. I did a couple of videos about the M disc last week It's a very very interesting form of technology. It's a form of optical storage media that is specifically archival grade So your regular blu-ray for instance writes data on to an inorganic layer And the M disc kind of tries to replicate literally the process of etching data into rock Like if you think about someone writing, you know carving into rock So that's a difference and that these m discs are supposed to last for 100 to 1000 years So it's actually really impressive. It's about the best most durable offline cold data storage medium currently in the market occur according to my research now I do own an NAS more classically for my YouTube channel and my video work in general So this is kind of how I organize it. I've showed this a bunch of times. So my folder structure is is is pretty Pretty classic or it's been seen at this point. So, you know, this is the way I work is I have a rendered folder I have a stock folder. I dump my b-roll Into the stock folder and then organize it according to 4k or a theme and for rendered I just kind of usually put into this now my m discs m discs are available in 25 50 and 100 gig capacity so Depends really how active I am in generating video and it is probably a smarter way to do this But this is a way I'm doing because I'm probably only going to need to burn One m disc a month to keep up with my current production, maybe even a little bit longer So periodically as in maybe once a week I'm just going into the the videos I have since my last m disc was burned I'm clicking on properties and we can see I'm now at 2.53 gigs. So the m disc usable usable capacity on the 25 Gigabyte ones is about 23.5 gigs So I try to kind of aim for 23 now this I'm sure a programmatic way to do this In uh windows for instance, but what I do is I actually bundle up The archive and I create a new folder called spillover Which is basically the stuff that was just a little bit above that 23 cutoff that I want to keep for the next burn Um, and if I need to drop one or two files in there, that's what I'll do And then once I have all my videos what I'll and this is why I said the Is why I'm doing it this way I just do a right click and a download and you can see I have the option to either download the individuals or download as a dot zip I'm actually downloading it as a zip because I don't really see much Um, you know reason this is just really a sale faith sale face Failsafe precaution and what I'm doing instead is uh labeling each m disc according to the months So this one's going to get labeled when it gets produced, you know May to june youtube archive and uh, if I ever for some reason really need to Find a video I put up on youtube in may That's on m disc. I can just open up that that particular file from my backup I'm going to be doing a video later today on how to uh duplicate m discs You can either buy a hardware duplicator or you can also um You can also if you if you don't want to invest in more than your standard blu-ray burner There's also a way at the software level that you can burn an m disc and say hold on to that data Or you could just and this is another reason to use archives rather than files You can just have that archive and burn it twice onto two different m discs And one of them will be your off-site backup and then you can just uh post it to your friend or However, you want to do physical arch archival backup. So this is the old school isch non cloud backup methodology for video backup through to one compliant three copies of data to Data medium one of those off-site, but this will get you there. So this is my current m disc NAS to m disc export process And uh, that's about all there is to be said for it. Thanks for watching