While digitizing your pictures and movies helps preserve them by preventing future quality breakdown, it does not safeguard them against a physical loss.

Depending on a single copy of data is not recommended.  A best practice with respect to safeguarding data is to make a backup copy and store it off-site.  Off-site storage is key to a successful disaster recovery plan.  For example, a fire could destroy an original VHS videotape along with the "converted-to-DVD" version.  It is unlikely that an off-site copy would be damaged by the same event or disaster.

The Photo Archival Company provides you with a peace of mind through a media vaulting subscription.  With us, your memories are safeguarded, off-site, virtually shielded against natural disasters, computer viruses, worms, accidental loss and breakage.

Our media vaulting service provides two redundant backup sites, hundreds of miles apart with an approximate 2000 ft. elevation differential. After we have converted your original photos, movies or audio assets to digital format, we'll keep a single copy of your DVDs and/or CDs at two of our vaulting locations for redundant protection.  

Each of your DVDs and CDs would be protected in a temperature and humidity controlled environment requiring biometric access control.  Our vaults are UL rated at 1850 degrees Fahrenheit for two-hours before compromise.