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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:Could be worse by Rikus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe I'm wrong on this one, but it seems to me like the resource fork is on the way out. How many of your applications/files actually use the resource fork in OS X?
    The primary exception seems to be OS 9 stuff.

  2. Re:Use Norton Ghost by Jamesie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ghost is excellent for full image backups, I use it to backup to a spare hard disk and dvd and the images are browsable if you need to restore individual files.
    If you have a network or just a pc and a laptop you can easily backup over the network to any pc.

    I back up my system and data partitions only, I keep all my mp3's and images on a third partition and archive those seperately.

    Apart from that I have a 1gig thumb drive that I regularly copy my main documents to.

  3. Anyone tried Peter's Backup? by perlfool · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I noticed the Peter's Backup project on SourceForge. It looks like it has most of the features requested. I haven't tried it yet, but I think I will.