Most physical storage gets damaged with time, and DVDs are no different. If you wish to be able to re-watch your precious video DVDs five or ten years from now, it would be prudent to make a backup copy or two. You can do this either by copying the disc, or saving the raw data [...]
Most physical storage gets damaged with time, and DVDs are no different. If you wish to be able to re-watch your precious video DVDs five or ten years from now, it would be prudent to make a backup copy or two. You can do this either by copying the disc, or saving the raw data to your hard disk. In this post I’ll discuss the second possibility – backing up your DVDs to the hard disk.
The simplest (and least likely to work) technique to back up a video disc is to just copy the files normally – right click the drive and select “Explore” to avoid the autoplay window popping up, then copy any folders you find to somewhere on your HD. This usually works fine with personal discs like the recording of you marriage or some such, but not with factory-made DVDs.
Another way to back up a disc is to create a “disc image”. This is a single file that contains all the data of a disc. The most widespread image file format is ISO, though some backup tools may also store it as a MDF file type or other proprietary file types. To create a disc image you can use, for example, ISOBuster or MagicISO. To view the DVD’s contents later, you will need to burn the image file to a blank disc or use a virtual drive to mount it.
Finally, there is another way to back up a DVD – DVD ripping. Basically, you run an application like “Any DVD Converter” and it generates video file(s) from your disc(s). This way you can easily view the video whenever you want, but you also forfeit the menus and you won’t be able to make an exact copy of the DVD if the original becomes unreadable or is lost. Anyway, I won’t go into detail here – this is a nuanced topic that would take an article of it’s own to explain properly.
Well, there you have it – 3 simple ways to back up your discs to the HDD. Hopefully you’ve found this post useful.
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