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jcw122
07-26-05, 04:37 PM
Hey all, I want to backup all of My Documents onto several CD-RWs (sorta like CD-R's except extremely low speeds adn their REWRITEABLE). Anyway, is it safe to just use Windows' backup program to do this, or would it be a good idea to just use another program? If so please make suggestions. TIA!

And no, I've already done this manually, it's a pain.
TekeTorvo
07-26-05, 05:04 PM
Nero 6.6 has an awesome App called InCD that, basically makes a RW into like a Floppy.
jcw122
07-26-05, 05:26 PM
hmm, I'll look into that, I have a version of Nero that came w/ my CD-RW Drive.
El<(')>Maxi
07-26-05, 06:49 PM
Nothing wrong with Explorer & native burning built into XP.
jcw122
07-26-05, 06:55 PM
Nothing wrong with Explorer & native burning built into XP.

K just makin sure, thx
jcw122
07-26-05, 07:01 PM
Something is wrong, neither SyncBack, nor Windows can backup the files to the CD...

Windows Says: "The backup file name could not be used. "E:/MyDoc Backup.bkf" Please Ensure it is a valid path and you have sufficient access"

?????????
El<(')>Maxi
07-26-05, 07:03 PM
NP,

The only difference is when you say "backup", to alot of people that also means compression. So if your trying to also save space as most CD's will do 700MB then you may want to consider compressing them beforehand, or using a backup util that does compression also.

My preference is an external HD, much faster and less chance of data loss.
jcw122
07-26-05, 07:04 PM
any ideas w/ the problem^ up there?
El<(')>Maxi
07-26-05, 07:09 PM
You can't go direct from native Windows backup to the CD. If your creating a .bkf file you would first need to back it up to local disk somewhere and then burn it onto your CD. That's why I prefer to simply file copy/burn/send to CD drive as it's one step.

Plus you can browse the files on CD rather than having to restore the .bkf so you can see whats inside it later.
jcw122
07-26-05, 07:11 PM
You can't go direct from native Windows backup to the CD. If your creating a .bkf file you would first need to back it up to local disk somewhere and then burn it onto your CD. That's why I prefer to simply file copy/burn/send to CD drive as it's one step.

Plus you can browse the files on CD rather than having to restore the .bkf so you can see whats inside it later.

Alright thanks Maxi, BTW what do u mean Copy/Burn/Send? like Copy and pasting stuff into the CD? I've done that, but I'm constantly putting new stuff into my My Documents folder, so yeah.
El<(')>Maxi
07-26-05, 07:16 PM
Just trying to cover the bases. There are alot of ways to get the files onto the CD drive (temp folder) for burning. File copy, drag & drop, save as, right click-send to CD.

It works with a floppy because there is no burning (requires software) involved. Windows backup and apparently the other app you were using are not smart enough to use the burning software while doing a backup to CD. There might be other that can do this but I'm not aware of them.