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Backups to CD-R?

Posted by Cliff on from the anything-but-tape dept.

Lumpish Scholar asks: "Backups are important, so we should tell our friends and family to buy a bunch of CD-Rs and...what? The operating system most of them are stuck with comes with backup software, but 'Windows Backup Does Not Back Up to CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R Devices (this behavior is by design). I've looked in the obvious places, but nothing comes across as better than adequate. There's got to be something that can do full or incremental backups (which in part means keeping track of what's already been backed up), that can back up files bigger than a single CD-R, and that's relatively fast and easy. What have you used to solve this problem, for yourself or others, for Windows or for better operating systems?"

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  1. Re:Bash Script by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Witness the power of the clicky-clicky

  2. Re:I use knoppix and dd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just posted a bunch of weird looking command lines that Windows XP users are supposed to use.

    My bet is most of them are quivering in the corner with a blanket calling for mommy after reading that.