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CD-RW Cannot do backup, need help
I have learned to burn CD's on CD-R's, and I have been able to transfer pictures, but I still cannot perform a system backup. Everything goes fine until the disk if full, then it tell's me that the disk if full and cannot continue, and backup is aborted. I have tried to perform a back up on zip disks, but it takes too many of them. I would like to back up to CD's. Help
Jim Hardin
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Posted September 24th, 2005 17:00
@ebette wrote:
I went to Assessorites, System Tools, then Backup. Can't I back up from there?
No, not to optical media.
If you backup up to file, more often the file will be too large to fit on the media…
Actually the best "backup" is a Data CD/DVD consisting of copies of the files you can't replace. That would be what you don't have install discs for.
In my opinion, given the size of HDs these days, it is no longer practical to backup to optical media. I use an external HD.
I just copied 20gb of data to the external HD in 20 minutes. Using DVDs that would have required 5 of them and probably taken 5+ hours to do.- I have downloaded so many programs, and have games, etc. that I want to back up. Is there any way I can do that to a CD? I have Robo Form, and I have downloaded Zone Alarm, the Weather Bug, etc. A lot of programs that aren't on my installation disks. I don't really care about the music, because all I have is CD's that I have copied to Real Player, so I can listen to them while I am on my computer. There surely is a way to back up my computer to CD's.
- Yes there is. What I believe Jim Hardin was trying to tell you was that
if you really want to use CDs to do it, you cannot do it in one single
sweep. If, for example, you have a 640Mb CDR disk, you can create a
data disk of 640Mb or less of your programs and data, then burn that.
Then you take a second disk and again create a data disk with some of
your other programs and data and burn that. You continue this until
all of your programs and data are burned to the disks. The single file
size will be the size of the disk.
Rather than viewing what you want to back-up as a huge block of data,
you need to break into smaller segments to fit the size limitations
of the optical media.
Also consider that many programs, such as ZoneAlarm, are on the internet
and are always available for download. - At one time I started a back up using 100 mb Zip disks. When one disk was full, I would be instructed to put in another disk. The download would then continue. I ran out of Zip disks. I thought it would be the same way with the Cd's. I thought I would be told when it was full, and instructed to put in another disk.Too bad it doesn't work that way. It was pretty easy.
Jim Hardin
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Posted September 24th, 2005 10:00
Disc Spanning requires specialized software. Nothing that is built into Windows can do it.