Backing Up and Archiving Photo CD Images
Kodak’s Photo CD specification indicates that Photo CDs should have a useful life of over 200 years if stored under the recommended dark storage conditions (25°C, 40% RH). However, this has been called into question by more recent studies that have cast doubt on the BLER methodology used to arrive at this estimate. In addition, reports have surfaced of disk failures. In any event, good practice dictates that any important digital asset be backed up to alternate media. Thus backing up or otherwise archiving Photo CD images is recommended.
Two broad strategies can be used for archiving Photo CD images - either backing up the entire CD, or just backing up the actual images:
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