Hard Drive -> CD software

[Gary]

When I bought my CD reader/writer, it came with software called NTI
CD-Maker Pro that enabled me to move stuff from the hard disk on to a
CD-R or CD-RW in 600 Kbyte increments via a "session".

I find the 600 kbye minimum is inconvienient, and the "sessions" to be
cumbersome. Does anyone know of FREEware that will allow me to avoid
these difficulties; hopefully to move data as easily as I can from
flopy-disk to hard-disk

Gary
(e-mail address removed)

 

[msd13]

When I bought my CD reader/writer, it came with software called NTI
CD-Maker Pro that enabled me to move stuff from the hard disk on to a
CD-R or CD-RW in 600 Kbyte increments via a "session".

I find the 600 kbye minimum is inconvienient, and the "sessions" to be
cumbersome. Does anyone know of FREEware that will allow me to avoid
these difficulties; hopefully to move data as easily as I can from
flopy-disk to hard-disk

Ever get that weird feeling that someone is going to go "that's where
you are wrong, for it is I who has written such a software!", to cut a
long story short..no. For Mic®osoft Windows there are two softwares
one of which is Adaptec DirectCD™ and what's it's known as is "packet
writing" to a CD. You might want to search this very newsgroup here
(the url might wrap!)

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q="freeware+packet+writing"&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg


There is this exception to the rule and it's a patch to the Linux
operating system, in the licence it does state it is free software so
on that technicality...(?)

http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/

<pedant>

...it looks like you need a specific build of the Linux kernel, and
it's not yet reached a major build number. For most of us there is no
freeware that can do what you are asking, even if the CD given away
with the hardware unit is free I think it's been generally accepted
that it's not freeware unless it's more freely avaliable. If you have
a friend with a CD like that (where the CD says it is free) you might
want to offer your backup services for the cost of a few floppy disks
after ensuring the legal advice you might both require is tax
deductable.

</pedant>

 

[Bernd Schmitt]

When I bought my CD reader/writer, it came with software called NTI
CD-Maker Pro that enabled me to move stuff from the hard disk on to a
CD-R or CD-RW in 600 Kbyte increments via a "session".

I find the 600 kbye minimum is inconvienient, and the "sessions" to be
cumbersome. Does anyone know of FREEware that will allow me to avoid
these difficulties; hopefully to move data as easily as I can from
flopy-disk to hard-disk

You can do multisession CD-writing with most cd-burning software. You
can write your own little script using mkisofs (make iso-file-system),
cdrecord (to write iso-file-systems on CD) and tar (archiver program -
if you don' want to care about file name conventions). I use this shell
commands for easy backups. Creating the scripts really is easy - and you
can allways make them more perfect for your specific needings.
If you need help - just ask here ...

Ciao,
Bernd

 

[msd13]

When I bought my CD reader/writer, it came with software called NTI
CD-Maker Pro that enabled me to move stuff from the hard disk on to a
CD-R or CD-RW in 600 Kbyte increments via a "session".

I find the 600 kbye minimum is inconvienient, and the "sessions" to be
cumbersome. Does anyone know of FREEware that will allow me to avoid
these difficulties; hopefully to move data as easily as I can from
flopy-disk to hard-disk

Gary
(e-mail address removed)

I havn't been aware of any freeware but you might want to look into
packet writing software if you can't find one (Adaptec Direct CD,
Ahead InCD..and some others). Search this group )
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q="freeware+packet+writing"&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg

Theres a patch to the Linux operating system which is free which lets
you do this (write to the cd drive as if it were a hard drive, almost)
http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/

Other than this...I just know of one freeware which lets you do multi
session discs in the same way (I would imagine) as your NTI CD-Maker
Pro program does. Theres isn't a lot of CD burning freeware...

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Gary, ([email protected]) said...

I find the 600 kbye minimum is inconvienient, and the "sessions" to be
cumbersome. Does anyone know of FREEware that will allow me to avoid
these difficulties; hopefully to move data as easily as I can from
flopy-disk to hard-disk

I only know of add-ons, using the UDF format, which formats CDs as if
they are a hard disk, and needs an UDF driver to be installed, to enable
reading such a CD. The specific tools are InCD (used by Nero) and
something from Adobe. I guess these are not free as "can be used with a
different program".

OTOH, I chose not to use UDF, as the driver tended to mess up my OS.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Gary]

You can do multisession CD-writing with most cd-burning software. You
can write your own little script using mkisofs (make iso-file-system),
cdrecord (to write iso-file-systems on CD) and tar (archiver program -
if you don' want to care about file name conventions). I use this shell
commands for easy backups. Creating the scripts really is easy - and you
can allways make them more perfect for your specific needings.
If you need help - just ask here ...

Ciao,
Bernd

Thanks all for your responses. This is so unusual, because usually by
the time I conceive of a need for something, it's been done at least 2
years earlier and considered hopelessly out-of-date by everyone else!

Bernd,

I do work only with Windows 98 (as opposed to LINUX), and I'm
intrigued by your idea of a "little script" to automate the process of
backup. My needs are not so great that I need to worry about
compression. My main worry is that when I do a new session, I'll
inadvertantly do something dumb that will destroy my access to the
files I put onto the CD-RW in previous sessions.

Can you give me an idea of what to read and where to find it so I can
proceed with this?

Than,
Gary

 

[Seabat]

When I bought my CD reader/writer, it came with software called NTI
CD-Maker Pro that enabled me to move stuff from the hard disk on to a
CD-R or CD-RW in 600 Kbyte increments via a "session".

I find the 600 kbye minimum is inconvienient, and the "sessions" to be
cumbersome. Does anyone know of FREEware that will allow me to avoid
these difficulties; hopefully to move data as easily as I can from
flopy-disk to hard-disk

Gary
(e-mail address removed)

Packet writing and/CD-RW are both known to be highly unstable and
unreliable. Head over to alt.comp.periphs.cdr and those folks will
give you the low-down on packet writing.

 

[REMbranded]

Gary <[email protected]> wrote:

I do work only with Windows 98 (as opposed to LINUX), and I'm
intrigued by your idea of a "little script" to automate the process of
backup. My needs are not so great that I need to worry about
compression. My main worry is that when I do a new session, I'll
inadvertantly do something dumb that will destroy my access to the
files I put onto the CD-RW in previous sessions.

Can you give me an idea of what to read and where to find it so I can
proceed with this?

Perhaps use a CD-R instead and make a series of backed up files?
Close each session when completed.

This seems safer than the CD-RW approach.

Try to select a program that allows you to create templates of what
you want to backup, ie: the folders. Then, each time you use the
template your job is automated.

 

[Bernd Schmitt]

Bernd,

I do work only with Windows 98 (as opposed to LINUX), and I'm

No problem, cdrtools are free, even for windows ;-) - I also use them
under Win2k
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/?topic_id=257,19,845,118,139
(caution 1 line)

intrigued by your idea of a "little script" to automate the process of
backup. My needs are not so great that I need to worry about
compression. My main worry is that when I do a new session, I'll
inadvertantly do something dumb that will destroy my access to the
files I put onto the CD-RW in previous sessions.

use cdrecord options -multi -waiti for writing multisessions
(mkisofs options -C -T -table-name ... sorry I never needed to write
multi session CDs with cdrecord - but maybe I will check this (for
personal interest)).

Can you give me an idea of what to read and where to find it so I can
proceed with this?

man pages
(caution again all 1 line, sorry to late for creating short ones;.)

cdrecord
http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/cdrecord-2.0.html

mkisofs
http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/mkisofs-2.0.html

cd commands related manpages
http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/

tar
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
get gnu tar software
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/
(there is another port of gnu tar, somewhere %-|



Sorry busy,
Bernd