Any ‘archiving’ software for Mac?

[A_Flying_Panda]

I’m just wondering if there is any ‘archiving’ software on Mac? I have like 5+ TB’s of photo and other stuff that I would like to burn to Blu-ray disks as a backup. I saw some youtube videos people are using tapes to do that. The software will write the data to tape and help you divide source data into multiple tapes and help you keep track on their location. But a tape machine is like $5k+, so I’m wondering if there are similar software that does the same thing but uses Blu-ray disks. I have ~500GB of data per year, so around 5 Blu-ray disks are not that ‘unmanageable’.

or anyone have any idea how to archive your data?

 

[Fishrrman]

If you're going to use optical media, I'd suggest "M-DISC" BluRay discs.
They don't use dyes, so they're immune to the failures (over time) of "fading dye" (and lost data).

Could you "archive" to hard drives or SSDs?
By "archiving", are you wanting media that "lasts longer than your life"? (see M-DISC above)

If so, some thinking might be involved, as in "who would really be interested in this stuff after I'm gone?"
After which, you might find considerably LESS stuff to "archive"...

 

[barbu]

Tar is a built in UNIX utility that you can use for archiving data.

tar (computing) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[A_Flying_Panda]

If you're going to use optical media, I'd suggest "M-DISC" BluRay discs.
They don't use dyes, so they're immune to the failures (over time) of "fading dye" (and lost data).

Could you "archive" to hard drives or SSDs?
By "archiving", are you wanting media that "lasts longer than your life"? (see M-DISC above)

If so, some thinking might be involved, as in "who would really be interested in this stuff after I'm gone?"
After which, you might find considerably LESS stuff to "archive"...

Yes I’ll be using M-DISC for that. The purpose is just to keep a somewhat permanent cope of my original files (photo, video and documents). I guess it’s mostly for my paranoids, I already have time machine backup on my NAS, and a remote offsite backup of that NAS. But I just want to make sure if I do something stupid to my files (edit it in a wrong way, accidental erroneous configuration that causes the loss of backup), I can always have a physical, permanent copy of the original files.
Also it’s a good way to keep a archive of non-editable files for my company file, just in case.

however my main question is, I need a software to keep track of those. There are a lot of those softwares for LTO tapes, but I haven’t found one for Blu-ray discs yet.