Q: can XP store large backup files across multiple CD's ?

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Paul Bennett

hi everyone

I own a CD burner, but not a DVD burner. I would like to use the Windows
Backup utility to store some files that (either individually, or as a group)
total much more in size than a single CD can contain. For example, say I
want to create a backup job to store a bunch of my music files, and they are
2 Gigs in size, total.

Will XP allow me to backup these files to a series of CD's, prompting me to
"insert a new CD" as each one becomes full? Or is this "problematic" with
Windows XP? (I run the Home version).

I guess a similar question might be how can one run backup jobs to DVD's
where the combined total file size exceeds a single DVD's capacity (i.e.
around 4.7 Gigs)

Thanks very much for your replies! Have a great day.

....Paul
 
Greetings

No Windows XP will not allow you to do that. You must purchase third party
software like Nero 6 or Easy CD Creator 6 in order to span those files to
CD's.
 
Paul, there are file splitter programs that you can download for free.
Download.com would be a good source to search.
 
thanks everyone for your suggestions! Well, I guess I'll have to check out
some third-party software, as you suggested.

Question: Do you know if this is possible with Windows NT, or another
version of Windows?

Microsoft annoys me. I wouldn't be surprised if they deliberately chose to
leave this spanning-backup technology out on purpose, when they have known
about the need for it for decades!

Have a great weekend, and thanks again for your tips.

....Paul
 
Holy cow: Microsoft bundled a browser with their operating system and got
sued left and right. Just imagine what would happen if they bundled a
full-fledged backup program.

Tom Swift
 
Good point, Tom !!

....Paul

Tom Swift said:
Holy cow: Microsoft bundled a browser with their operating system and got
sued left and right. Just imagine what would happen if they bundled a
full-fledged backup program.

Tom Swift

say
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I have Windows XP Pro and I have backed up to my other hard drive. I also
have backed up to cd-r's. It took me 6 cd's to do it. I have also backed up
to DVD-cdr's. I have had no trouble doing any of this. I use Powerquests
Drive Image 7.0 for this. If you do not use XP you can use Drive image 2002
which also comes with 7.0. This software is worth its weight in gold. It
has saved me numerous times. I can not see why every one does not purchase
a second hard drive with their PC and also Drive Image. Don't buy MS's
Goback, it's too complicated to use.
My 2 cents worth on this subject.
 
hi everyone

I own a CD burner, but not a DVD burner. I would like to use the
Windows Backup utility to store some files that (either individually,
or as a group) total much more in size than a single CD can contain.
For example, say I want to create a backup job to store a bunch of my
music files, and they are 2 Gigs in size, total.

Will XP allow me to backup these files to a series of CD's, prompting
me to "insert a new CD" as each one becomes full? Or is this
"problematic" with Windows XP? (I run the Home version).

I guess a similar question might be how can one run backup jobs to
DVD's where the combined total file size exceeds a single DVD's
capacity (i.e. around 4.7 Gigs)

Thanks very much for your replies! Have a great day.

...Paul
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Hi, Paul!
Use True Image from from http://www.acronis.co.uk/index.asp
It is best value for money.
Here is as description:
Acronis' Exclusive
Creates and restores disk images in Windows - no need to reboot to DOS
even when backing up system partitions.
Unique technology that allows you to continue to work in Windows while
imaging your hard disk drive
Mounts partitions stored inside an image as the logical drives in
Windows so you can explore the archive and/or restore separate files
The only imaging software available today that fully supports all
Windows and Linux file systems
Saves and restores an image from a network drive
The only product of its kind to support new USB 2.0 drives and burners
Extremely easy to use Windows XP-like wizard-driven interface
Key Features
Creates exact disk images for complete data insurance
Restores whole hard disk drives and separate partitions and/or replaces
lost or damaged files
Writes a disk image to CD-R / CD-RW, DVD-R / DVD-RW, DVD+R / DVD+RW,
ZIP®, Jaz® and other storage devices
Seamlessly clones hard disk drives to a new computer
Additional Features
Stores only necessary disk sector contents in minutes
Supports popular media drives and CD / DVD disc burners with IDE, SCSI,
USB, and PCMCIA interfaces
Offers user-defined compression levels
Allows users to divide archives into several volumes
Protects archives by password
Supports any size hard disks
Restores both data and system partitions
Creates a bootable diskette or CD-R(W) that can restore your computer's
usability even if your operating system fails
Changes partition type, file system, size, and disk location during
restoration*
Supports Windows FAT16/32 and NTFS, and Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and
Linux SWAP partitions
Fully supports Windows XP
 
I tried TI and went back to Drive Image. Couldn't back up to DVD's with True
Image. Sooner or later you'll probably get a DVD writer for movies etc.
Why use 6 plus cd's when you can use 1 DVD?
 
Joe said:
I tried TI and went back to Drive Image. Couldn't back up to DVD's
with True Image. Sooner or later you'll probably get a DVD writer
for movies etc. Why use 6 plus cd's when you can use 1 DVD?
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TI 6.0 supports DVD, but you have some other DVD Burning software installed:

http://www.discountshareware.com/trueimageinfo.html

Supported storage devices (disk image destinations):
hard disk drives
network drives
CD-R(W)
* DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W)
ZIP®, Jazz® and other removable media
IDE, SCSI, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), USB 1.0 / 2.0, PC card storage devices.
* - requires third-party DVD recording software installed.
 
On 11/21/2003 12:04 AM Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these
great (and sometimes not so great) words of knowledge:

They USE to package a backup utility with the OS. 98SE had it and it
worked with tape backups, floppy and I believe, CD also.
 
Why bother installing TI if you have to have some other burning software
installed when Powerquest Drive Image 7.0 does it all?
 
Joe said:
Why bother installing TI if you have to have some other burning
software installed when Powerquest Drive Image 7.0 does it all?
Click to expand...

None. You had said TI didn't burn to DVD. All I was saying is the newest
version can burn to DVD. You use DI, great.
 
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