Advice before flushing drives of old project files

I'm sure it's a dumb newbie question but be gentle please. What's the difference, in terms of underlying files that must be retained, between a disk image, a QT movie, and Video_TS - Audio_TS ?
I'm done and just need to retain what is necessary to make another DVD if aunt Minnie loses her copy of the kids Christmas 1979.
The .mov is 13.9 gigs, .img is 3.4 gigs, no question about those, but its hard to determine a total for Vido_TS without knowing if it's free standing or requires other files.
Dual 2.0 G5 4GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.3) FCP 4.5 HD, QT 7, DVDSP 3, 900 mb assorted drives

John,
If you need to retain the working files for the project, if you will ever want to change anything on it ever again, then you should save your m2v files, menus, and whatever else you've included. You can try and back them up on a DVD or on a drive.
If all you want is the ability to create a duplicate in the event of loss or damage to the original, then you only need a copy of the DVD (yeah scratches are possibility) or the _TS folders (AUDIO AND VIDEO) copied to a hard drive.
To burn copies of the _TS folders from your drive, you can either:
1. Insert a blank DVD, drag the _TS folders to the disc and click burn.
2. Open TOAST, drag the _TS folders into the disc, click burn.

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