I thought if you want to use that external version of blockchain with your wallet it will have to be validated first.
And while downloading blockchain directly by wallet itself blocks are validated simultaneously.
Another problem is that blockchain is growing bigger every minute. In the your time psychical backup will arrive via postal services Blockchain could be couple GB bigger.
You could get the checksum of every block from the network. And then where you start your disk first time you can validate the entire disk to see that you got a original copy not a fake copy.
Yes, its growing bigger, but you can give out new parts of the chain every 2-3 months on another disk. Or it can depend how frequently you want to give out the new version.
Its not necessarly for just being up to date, but to have the bulk of bitcoin transactions secured, and accesible for everyone. Either way the more confirms and the oldest a TX is, the more valid it is.
Well current blockchain size is already well above storage capacity of regular Blue Ray discs and it won't be long before it reaches beyond what even BDXL discs can hold. Also, you would still need to download the rest of the blockchain from where the data on the disc ends.
You give out volume 2 on another disk.