Program to backup 100s of gigs to dvd automatically?

[RobinR]

Here's my dilemma.

I've got about 300 files weighing in from 700-1500 megs each on a few hard-drives. I want to back these all up to DVD, but I dont want to sit there and individually create each dvd (should take a few hundred dvds).

Can I just select all the folders I want backed up, and have a program just start burning and just advise me when to put in a new dvd? And then just keep working at burning more?

Does this make sense?

Much thx for any help.

Robin

 

[viperbri]

Robin...I believe you can do that with the BackItUp program that is included with Nero.

 

[pontifex]

damn thats a lot of porn...

hmm...i should try that with my like 70 gb of mp3s...

 

[RobinR]

Ill give Nero a try.. thanks.

And its actually all movies and tv shows, no porn involved Oh yeah, and 55 gigs of music.

 

[MustISO]

This is where Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will be useful. It's a PITA to backup a lot of data.

 

[Exsomnis]

If you compress all the data with a program like WinRAR you can set it to split the compressed file into chunks of whatever size you like. Might be worth trying, but it's hardly fully automatic backing up.

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: Exsomnis
If you compress all the data with a program like WinRAR you can set it to split the compressed file into chunks of whatever size you like. Might be worth trying, but it's hardly fully automatic backing up.

I'm assuming the movies and music files are divx/xvid and mp3 files. Compressing these files will not decrease the file size as these files are in already a compressed format (will decrease few kbs though). Just use your burning program as most burning programs already have the option you're looking for.

 

[tw1164]

Does nero split files over discs?

 

[Doh!]

Nero BackItUp or Roxio Creator (includes Backup My PC) can do it.

 

[nweaver]

Buy a tape drive that will do more in a single shot, I have an Onstream ADR with 50 gig tapes, and it works great.

 

[Exsomnis]

Originally posted by: Doh!

Originally posted by: Exsomnis
If you compress all the data with a program like WinRAR you can set it to split the compressed file into chunks of whatever size you like. Might be worth trying, but it's hardly fully automatic backing up.

I'm assuming the movies and music files are divx/xvid and mp3 files. Compressing these files will not decrease the file size as these files are in already a compressed format (will decrease few kbs though). Just use your burning program as most burning programs already have the option you're looking for.

Compression wasn't the point. WinRAR can basically put every file you want to back up into one uncompressed .rar archive, and if you set it to do so during the procedure, you can make it automatically split that part into however many equally-sized parts are required to fit your needs.

IE. Backing up 100GB of data in 1GB parts, for example, will result in 100 little RAR files which can be burned seperately and rejoined then extracted on the HDD later.

 

[dealseaker]

get a couple external boxes for HD's is my suggestion

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: nweaver
Buy a tape drive that will do more in a single shot, I have an Onstream ADR with 50 gig tapes, and it works great.

how much is a onstream system.

 

[Mavrick007]

If I had 100's of Gigs of movies and tv shows, I don't think I'd want them on DVD as rar files cause then I'd have to put them back on a hard drive if I ever wanted to watch them. I bet I would never end up doing that as well (hehe they would end up as a bunch of files on disk that I'd probably forget about and never get to again).

Not sure what to tell ya man, I just take a night here and there after my drives get full and burn about 40-50 discs a night. It might take some time but is not too bad after you get the bulk done and then if you keep up the archiving.

 

[abc]

i think either you pay $ for big harddisks and backup the harddisks, or pay as in time in being a robot in making all these dvd burns.

i rather pay $.

 

[MScrip]

I took a hard drive, put it in an external enclosure, and wrote a batch file to copy my folders to it. I run it every night, and it only copies the files that have changed or new files and folders.

Now, I know that some people think that backing up a hard drive to another hard drive is not a good idea. But, I'd hate to make a hundred backup DVDs, then try to find a specific file on a hundered DVDs.

At least this way I have my files on 2 hard drives... and it would be highly unlikely that BOTH these drives would fail at the same time. If either drive failed, I'd replace it and copy the files back to it. It works for me!

 

[CalvinHobbes]

how much is a onstream system.

Looks to be a lot more expensive then just buying a few 300GB HD's.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

do what my friend did........purchase 8 500Gb Hard drives...........the scary thing is....his 1.91 TB raid array is nearly full