[DM-MUG] Burning CDs & DVDs - burning

[Bryan Baker]

Yes, it does: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=153168

"If you have more information than will fit on a single CD or DVD disc, 
Backup lets you know how many discs your backup will use."

It appears that you can even mix media. It will possibly split files, 
meaning that part of the file exists on each disc, but according to the 
docs, it sure looks like it'd work to me. Now if you insist that they 
all be available as separate files w. no splits, that may not be what 
you want, but you asked for something that would span DVDs and it looks 
like it will.

Another approach, with more effort on someone's part would be to set up 
an Automator action that could pull files off the CDs, look though for 
and delete dupes and then intelligently split the data into DVD size 
chunks and burn them. I think most of what you need is contained within 
it's built in capabilities, biggest question is "Is it worth it?"

On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>> Victoria, you can use DVDs as the media using the Backup app. I was 
>> not proposing using your .mac storage, merely saying, since you had 
>> .mac you had Backup.app.
>> Hope that clears it up for you. Backup has had the ability to do 
>> actual media backup for some time now.
>
> I know...but does it allow me to choose a folder full of 5 G data and 
> have the backup engine back up to Disk 1 and know enough to call out 
> for Disk 2 rather than my doing the counting into subfolders for back 
> up myself?  That's the Q == I do have Backup and use it a lot but 
> haven't yet had to back up gobs of data over several destinations....
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