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Backup with cdrw

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by crazyfemale

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What's the best way to use a CD-RW drive to create backups?

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by gareth watson

You have to choices both of which involve 3rd party software but this should have been supplied with your CDRW drive.

1. You could install the writing software that came with your CDRW-drive and then burn the files to a CDRW as you normally would. When you need to backup again, you could blank the disc, again using the supplied software and perform the burn operation again.

This has the downside that you are having to copy all the data over to the CDRW even though only a little bit may have changed.

2. Use some Packet Writing software, again, this should have been supplied with the CDRW drive. Once installed you can format the CDRW this will make it appear as an extra hard-drive. You can now copy files to it using normal drag and drop in windows explorer. Once you have a copy of the data on CDRW and on hard-disk ou can use a tool like SynchronX to check if anything has changed and only copy over the changed files. Here is a link to the tool and its FREE!!!

http://www.clickteam.com/English/synchronx.php

Hope that helps.

by avswamy

create a system state backup, which is in built option in win2k, and burn it into cd. i hope this will help you.

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