[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

[Travis Ballstadt]

I'd agree with Darcy.  CompUSA just had a 250GB AcomData firewire  
drive on sale last week for $99 after rebates.  I've found them to be  
pretty reliable under heavy use (video editing).  The one I opened up  
had a Seagate hard drive in it.



On Apr 21, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Darcy Baston wrote:

> 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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