Digital data is expanding amazingly throughout the world. Each organization, despite their size, or even individuals are facing issues of how to develop effective solutions to store the data safely by achieving both its method and data accessibility. Generally, the necessary factors to be considered for selecting a method and proper media are; capacity, authenticity, security, long-term storage stability, format obsolescence risk, accessibility, and the frequency and accuracy of data migration. Ideally, the solutions shall be recommended by international standards or alike that define safe operation of archiving starting from selecting the proper media to migration, which can give users great benefits.This paper clarifies the suitability of optical disk formats for archiving, particularly of BD-R, and challenges the said issues by discussing the relation between the format and the safety standards that support long term storage.
Masatoshi "Max" Inui, Hiroko Ito, "Safe Archiving Operation Using International Guidelines and High Capacity BD-R" in Proc. IS&T Archiving 2014, 2014, pp 106 - 110, https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2014.11.1.art00023