Looking to Backup My Movies

[Overtim3]

So far I have been having hard time deciding how to backup my DvD collection. What i would like to do is save all my movies to an external drive in case they ever get scratched. Has anyone had experience with this?

 

[mac_attack]

You can use a variety of programs to rip dvd's onto hard drives.

 

[carnageX]

I like to use DVDFab. Can rip to a variety of formats, and make an entire backup of the disc with menus intact, or can do just the movie if you want. Gives different compression / audio options as well.

 

[Yami]

Personally I use AnyDVD Image Ripper. It makes a 1:1 image of the DVD, which you can the burn to a DVD and you have your identical backup copy.

 

[carnageX]

You can do that with DVDFab as well. Or you can take out parts of it (like the unskippable portions such as previews / warning screens), and keep a full ISO intact.

 

[Yami]

Is DVDFab free? I remember using it a while ago to do that with a couple Blu-Rays til I realised all BD-R movies have every scene as a separate file and I cba to stick them together.

 

[carnageX]

Don't believe it's free.

 

[mac_attack]

Does the quality come out good from those two programs, no hiccups?

 

[carnageX]

Has for me.

Like I said, you can either make an exact duplicate or compress it to a different format, each with different options for compression.

 

[mac_attack]

Alright thanks