CD Burner software that burns across multiple CDs

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Is there a free CD burner that will burn over 3Gb of data across multiple
CDs.

I currently have Nero 6.3 but cannot find anything that says it can do this.

regards

PeterH
 
PeterH said:
Is there a free CD burner that will burn over 3Gb of data across multiple
CDs.

I currently have Nero 6.3 but cannot find anything that says it can do this.
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What exactly are you trying to do? Is it one very large file that you are
wanting to burn to CD-R?
 
PeterH said:
Is there a free CD burner that will burn over 3Gb of data across
multiple CDs.
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Any...if you zip the data and split the zip. Most zip programs will let you
set it to split at a given size automatically. If not, the zip can be split
with any file splitter.

A handy way to select the files for zipping is with a program such as My Own
Backup which lets you select any files and/or folders you want and that
selection becomes a "set"; backing up/restoring a set is then just a matter
of pushing one button.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7023,00.asp

What you want to do is not really a function of a burning program, it is the
function of a program either feeding data *to* the burning program or
manipulating the ASPI interface itself to do the burning. A backup program
IOW. MOB is such and will let you write to and span media (never used it
that way myself so can't vouch for it but it says it does so). It will also
write the data uncompressed if you prefer.

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Yes, I have 3Mb of data. I want the burning software to recognise that
it can only burn the data on to multiple CDs.
After the first CD is full it then asks for a second CD to be inserted
and so on until all the data has been burnt.
I remember a package that used to do this for floppy disks.
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AFAIK none of the *freeware* backup software will do this UNLESS you
have software like InCD installed which essentially allows you to
treat CD/RW disks (but not CDRs) as "giant floppies".

DAR (Disk ARchive), a Linux program that has been ported to Windows
can do this, but it's not an easy program to use, and you have to have
the Cygwin system installed (which essentially allows you to run
UNIX/Linux programs from a command line under Windows). So I don't
think you'll find it helpful in this case.

As other posters have suggested, it is best to just use a backup
program that "splits" your backup into multiple zip files or
directories based on the size of a CD, then burn the backups
individually.
 
PeterH said:
Is there a free CD burner that will burn over 3Gb of data across multiple
CDs.

I currently have Nero 6.3 but cannot find anything that says it can do this.
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I don't know of any freeware that will do this but Norton Ghost should be
able to handle what you want to do.


Ghost is NOT freeware but can usually be found at computer shows for only a
few dollars (usually included with other Norton products but sometimes by
itself).


I assume, of course, that you have computer shows or similar down under!
;-))



HTH.


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the right questions.
 
Is there a free CD burner that will burn over 3Gb of data across multiple
CDs.
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Why is this rocket science? The DOS XCOPY command did it with floppies. I
need the same program, which doesn't seem to exist.
 
Why is this rocket science? The DOS XCOPY command did it with floppies. I
need the same program, which doesn't seem to exist.
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Floppies use a standard DOS/Windows file system and relatively simple
hardware.

CD's use a standard file system (ISO9660) which is much more
complicated. More importantly, the hardware is much more complicated
and less standard than a floppy disk even though it runs off the same
type of drive controller. Writing to a CD is much more complicated
than writing to a floppy.

Also spanning files means design decisions - do you split files in the
middle, do you write large files first then small ones, do you
rearrange them until you get what fits (like some freeware utilities
do) - doing this all while writing a burner program is too much for
most freeware programmers, I think. It's hard enough just to get a
reliable burner program running.

It's just one of those areas where freeware authors are at a major
disadvantage to commercial developers. Even k3b, the best burner on
Linux, doesn't do spanning.

It'll probably get done one of these days, but right now you're hit
unless you use one of the backup programs that backup to a specified
size file first and then let you call a burner program to burn that
file before proceeding to the next. That's what DAR (Disk ARchive)
and some other Linux backups do.
 
Why is this rocket science? The DOS XCOPY command did it with floppies. I
need the same program, which doesn't seem to exist.
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XCOPY does not span disks. If a file is larger than the available
space, it fails with an "insufficient disk space" error. You are perhaps
thinking of PKZIP, which does span floppy disks if the "&" switch is used.
 
did said:
Is there a free CD burner that will burn over 3Gb of data across multiple
CDs.

I currently have Nero 6.3 but cannot find anything that says it can do this.

regards

PeterH
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Not exactly what you want, but probably the next best thing - Burn to the
Brim - http://bttb.sourceforge.net/
"Burn to the Brim is an open-source freeware program designed to make
selection of files to optimally fill a CD a breeze."
 
Oh boy, that's the BIG question. I've been looking for years now.
Even all the commercial ones don't do this properly. MusicMatch
Jukebox, believe it or not, came the closest to doing the best job
though it was very SLOW and didn't accept my LFNs.

In my case, I'd settle for an app, like BTTB, that would just
_analyze_ what needs to be burned (preferably by just dragging and
dropping files AND/OR folders into it) and then would _group_ them by
the size we specify to be burned. Preferably it would choose the
optimum combination of apps so we "burn to the brim"! <g> Also, if
one could just then drag and drop the sections into our burning app of
choice, now _that_ type of app would be PL candidate immediately! <g>

Sounds simple enough, eh? No-one seems to have come up with a simple
app like this. _Yet_ (hint said:
Not exactly what you want, but probably the next best thing - Burn to the
Brim - http://bttb.sourceforge.net/
"Burn to the Brim is an open-source freeware program designed to make
selection of files to optimally fill a CD a breeze."
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Little Girl and I tried this one extensively over several weeks
(archives would probably show the thread. It was a long one about a
year ago or so).

We never got it to work properly (despite _helpful_ hints from a
certain unpleasant individual, I might add <g>). It's garbage in my
view. But give it a try. Just because a few people couldn't get it to
work doesn't mean everyone has that trouble. But I hate it myself
when after one dl something very hopefully it turns out to be
extremely cumbersome to work with. And this one takes the cake as one
of the worse <g>.

Good luck, though. If you do find a solution, _please_ report back to
the group.

:oD
 
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