Backups to CD-R?

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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Re:Could be worse

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

You know, on Windows we no longer need to spread our files out across whatever, because Windows actually has this concept where you and your programs dictate directory structure rather than having 20 different bin, share, and etc directories.

Tim