[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

[Darcy Baston]

I use iVew Media for finding dupes. It can backup to fixed and
removeable media but I don't know if it will do spanning and maximize
space consumption while spanning.

Instead of a bunch of DVDs which are are even more at risk of losing
data as CDs (media size), why not get an external hard drive or a
spare internal one if you have a tower? I did the jump from CD to DVD
and still got some data corruption even when the disc was verified
after burning.

I backup using two hard drives now. Should one die, the other has the same data.

On 4/21/06, Victoria L. Herring <vlherring at herringlaw.com> wrote:
> >       I need to do a rather massive burning job [moving photo
> >images from CD to harddrive then burning to archival DVDs] and in the
> >past I've had trouble using the OSX Burn feature [so far tho that is
> >all I've needed] but do have Toast 6 and seem to recall that that
> >program would allow moving the images all from CD to the harddrive
> >and then burning them to the DVDs en masse, where it would stop at
> >the end of the DVD space and ask for another DVD to be put in....is
> >that right or is there a better program?  I'd like to streamline the
> >process as much as possible so I don't need to watch over it as it
> >goes along.
>
> One person did suggest an easy answer, which might be to just copy
> over X CDs into folder and then burn the folder onto DVDs since
> they'd be about right size in bulk.  But on thinking this through,
> that's not going to accomplish what I want to accomplish.
>
> I have about 80 CDs and DVDs nonarchival in nature of photos that i
> want to put on Archival disks.  But the complicating problem is that
> amongst those are 8-9 duplicate sets = being so cautious over time I
> have backed up or copied Picture X some 8-9 times, so that what I do
> want to do is some cleaning out and cleansing...I can use TidyUp or
> other programs to find dups and then delete some and THEN do the
> backing up to archival, but the same Q then presents itself, how can
> I put all the to-be-burned items in one folder and then have a
> program know enough to fill up ARchival disk 1 and then call for Disk
> 2 and then 3 etc = so that I don't have to guess at how many photos
> it will take to fill up one?  Some pics are going to be 1mb and some
> 40mb, depending, so I can't just assume it'll take so many pics to do
> this.
>
> I thought Toast allowed you to just put all stuff in its window and
> it'd burn what it needed to on Disk 1 and then call out for Disk 2,
> but I tried that recently and it didn't work.  Maybe I did it wrong,
> maybe it needs Toast 7...is there any other program?  OSX Burn
> doesn't do it....as far as I know.
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