whats a good way to backup several GB to cd?

[Maximus96]

i'm responsible to backup our data for a small company. it consists of mainly autocad drawings. whats a good, efficient way to back up about 6-7 gb of data? i've been using winzip then splitting the zipped file into 700mb segments to store on cd. but lately winzip has been giving me problems telling me there's a write error and possible disk full when theres 60gb of freespace.

 

[CrazyPerson]

try winrar
i like it better

 

[CrazyPerson]

or just get a better cdw

they have ones that can hold few gbs

 

[wetobasura]

use a backup program that is able to span discs.

 

[Czar]

buy a dvd writer or get a tape backup or a few usb connected hd's and do rotated backups

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: zaku
i'm responsible to backup our data for a small company. it consists of mainly autocad drawings. whats a good, efficient way to back up about 6-7 gb of data? i've been using winzip then splitting the zipped file into 700mb segments to store on cd. but lately winzip has been giving me problems telling me there's a write error and possible disk full when theres 60gb of freespace.

here are 2 decent options:

1. NTI Backup Now! ver 3

2. Drive Image 7.

they will do what you want and will compress the data to span cds. I backed up 4.7 gigs to a 1.7 gig file that spanned 3 cd's.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

RAID.

Edit - BTW, your error is likely coming from Winzip sucking and creating a "temp" file on the wrong drive. Try WinRAR like CrazyPerson suggested.

Or if all this is so important, invest in a tape drive.

- M4H

 

[notfred]

DVD-R

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: notfred
DVD+R

Fixed your error.

- M4H

 

[Maximus96]

winrar does not allow me to backup the files from another computer thru a network. we already have the mirroring raid setup, but doesn't allow us to access old files. and the temp director is set to the drive with 60gb free, so i dont know whats wrong. this write error just started a few days ago. before then, winzip was working fine. thanks for any input.

 

[Czar]

what you need is definetly a few large ide disks and second copy 2000 or whatever version they are at, it can keep incrimental copies, my setup is so that it stores 2 changes back of my backup files

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: notfred
DVD+R

Fixed your error.

- M4H

 

[Czar]

and just to be safe, have 2-3 extranal usb disks which you can use for off site backups

 

[SaigonK]

Buy a DVD burner and burn it to two blanks instead of 10 or so....

 

[XZeroII]

Post about it on a message board filled with people who think rice has to do with cars...

 

[Electrode]

tar -c -L 65000 -vMf file.tar *

Works for me

 

[neilm]

So if you dont have linux, dvd burner, and extra HDD. WinRAR is the best software to use to backup your stuff onto CD?

 

[Maximus96]

but winRAR doesn't allow over-the-network backup. so far only winzip does it for me. is winace still around?
by the way, no linux, no dvd burner, and no extra hdd, besides the raid. we do copy everything to another computer as a way of backup everyother week or so.

 

[neilm]

Why don't ya look at the new winzip beta fix list, I'm sure they would have fixed that problem.

I was asking that for me, I'm not in a network... so blame me for thread hijacking

 

[johnjbruin]

My group is also facing the issue of doing backups and since they dont want to spend even an additional penny, i was wondering if there is a way to run winrar from command line( with all options like specifying to split at 650MB etc.) so i can write a dos script(not linux) to do weekly backups?