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Backup to cd in XP

avaagava

avaagava

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Hey I'm having problems getting Xp to backup automatically in the middle of the night to a cd. The backup program isn't accepting the cdrw as a backup destination. There's nothing wrong with it, all the drivers are valid and up to date and the drive works perfectly if you manually burn stuff to it. If anyone has any ideas that would be great.
 
Hi,

Are you talking about the Windows backup program or a third party program? Last time I actually tried the NTBACKUP program to see if it could use writable CD media I was running Windows 2000. Couldn't do it. Didn't recognize the media as being valid for backup purposes. I suspect the same limitation may apply to the WinXP backup proggy, too. There are vendors who sell backup programs that work directly with CD writers. Or, you can make a backup to a location on a hard drive, then burn the backup to a CD in a two-step process. Seems kinda silly, but I'm certain some people can make a case for doing it that way.

- Collin
 
Yeah I'm trying to use the Windows backup utility. I've already got them backing up to the hard drive but I also need a backup of the same data to go to cd also.
 
Does anyone else have any solutions for this, I'm really needing to be able to backup to cd and I don't have any resources availible to get a third party software solution.
 
I can copy them over manually but what I'm really needing is for the Windows backup utility to back them up automatically to the cdrw. The problem is when I try and tell it to back it up to the cdrw it tells me that the path is invalid, as far as I can tell everything is fine with the path and the drive works perfectly other than this.
 
I'm sorry. AFAIK the native backup program still doesn't support writeable CDs. Don't know of any freeware backup software that does, either.

- Collin
 
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