What is the best way of archive inactive contacts?

I have a few hundred number of contacts that aren' t active but I want to keep for historical reasons instead of deleting. I put them into an archive folder but they still get in my way because they are in the All contacts group. is the best way to get them out of the way is to use the Contacts backup feature my contacts to a file and put that file someplace safe like in the cloud?
It it to would be nice to drag them into the archive folder and have them not appear in contact searches Tthe only way I've gotten that to work is with smart groups, which are great until you get on an iOS device and discover they aren't supported over icloud sync.
Any ideas?

Presuming your menus aren't complicated(include audio or video) the total size for the MPG-2 and AC3 files should probably be under 8GB for a dual layer disk. The inspector will tell you the estimated size. 2-pass varible bit rate would be recommended.
Trying to fit 3 hours on a DVD-5 will only bring very noticable quality hits. Compressor will let you change the average bit rate so that you can fit 174 minutes but trade-off isn't worth it in my opinion.
Be aware that dual-layer -R and +R media may not play well for everyone everywhere.
I presume you are not making 1000 or more copies? If you were replication could solve this.
One other alternative would be to break-up the show into two parts and spread it across two DVD-5s.

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