[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

Victoria L. Herring vlherring at herringlaw.com
Fri Apr 21 12:17:52 CDT 2006


>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.

I have 5 LaCies already - but they're all on site...I want a set of 
archival DVDs [which are not at risk the way CDs unarchival or DVDs 
unarchival are] offsite....i've researched it all...just need to know 
what program would work to copy to DVDs sequentially without my 
having to do all the math etc. to figure out sizing for each one....
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