Don't. Not only the issues that Robert and Teresa identified, but it will
become increasingly difficult to find CD readers. Yes, plenty exist today,
and DVD and Blu-Ray are backwards compatible. But I'd guess 50/50 at best
as to being able to find a device capable of reading them in 10 years;
moreover, depending on the file formats of the data on the CD, that is
likely to be an even bigger issue.

That said, NIST has guidance for optical media storage at
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf.
But better idea: copy it to better media (read: RAID/backed up
magnetic/solid state (Flash)) while the media and data on it is still
readable.

-- 
Regards,

Jesse Wilkins, CIP, CRM, IGP
Denver, CO
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