multiple cds backup

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Does anyone know how to create a multiple cd bacup? I can
create one gigantic .bkf but how do I burn it on multiple
cds?
 
Does anyone know how to create a multiple cd bacup? I can
create one gigantic .bkf but how do I burn it on multiple
cds?
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Third party backup programs. I use Norton Ghost but there are many
others that will burn directly to CD and also make the CDs bootable.

Even so, I prefer to first backup the disk image to a second HDD
reserved for backups and archives, setting a parameter which breaks
the big image file up into CD sized chunks, then I copy these files to
CDs, then I take the CDs to another location.

Reason for keeping a copy of the backup on HDD is that to restore just
a few files from a Ghost multi CD image takes forever with many CD
swaps, while it is quick and easy if all the chunks are together in
the one folder on a HDD. It doesn't matter if you only ever want to
restore the whole image - you can burn straight to the CD then.

Just with NTBackup you could do separate backups for your data,
keeping each backup file below CD chunk size (I use 800M CDs) but that
ain't agonna help with a system or O/S backup unfortunately.
 
Does anyone know how to create a multiple cd bacup? I can
create one gigantic .bkf but how do I burn it on multiple
cds?
Click to expand...

MS Backup cannot be used to back up to CDR or DVD-R. You will need a
third-party application.
 
Third party backup programs. I use Norton Ghost but there are many
others that will burn directly to CD and also make the CDs bootable.

Even so, I prefer to first backup the disk image to a second HDD
reserved for backups and archives, setting a parameter which breaks
the big image file up into CD sized chunks, then I copy these files to
CDs, then I take the CDs to another location.

Reason for keeping a copy of the backup on HDD is that to restore just
a few files from a Ghost multi CD image takes forever with many CD
swaps, while it is quick and easy if all the chunks are together in
the one folder on a HDD. It doesn't matter if you only ever want to
restore the whole image - you can burn straight to the CD then.

Just with NTBackup you could do separate backups for your data,
keeping each backup file below CD chunk size (I use 800M CDs) but that
ain't agonna help with a system or O/S backup unfortunately.
Click to expand...

Just to clarify - if you are going to use NTBackup to burn to CDs you
have to backup to HDD first then use XP's inbuilt burning capability
to copy to CD, and the backup has to be less than a single CDs worth -
XP's copy to CD function cannot span CDs.
 
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