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How To Change Back-Up Format?

Jul 4, 2010 6:39AM PDT

I have Windows Vista Home Premium SP2. I am trying to back-up and get the following message when I get to the burn to disc. It says It will burn to disc in Mastered Format which means can only back-up once to the disk and if want to back-up more than once to the same disk to do Live File System. How do I change it from Mastered Format to Live File System Format?

I appreciate any assistance you can give me.

Renee

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My advice is
Jul 4, 2010 6:57AM PDT

To not use the Microsoft backup system. If you research this you find folk with backups on such media and can't figure out how to restore from backup.

Why not use simple CD/DVD recording to DVD with the files you can't lose?

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Don't Understand
Jul 4, 2010 7:12AM PDT

That's why I thought I was doing by backing up to my DVD-RW. Can you explain what you're saying I should do instead?

Thanks again for the help,

Renee

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My advice is
Jul 4, 2010 7:23AM PDT

Based on what many discover. They restore the machine or change to Windows 7 and then they discover the backups can't be used. Let's not discuss that again.

Ok, there are fine CD/DVD recording softwares that let us erase a DVDRW and put files on the media. These sessions are then compatible with almost all versions of Windows and even Apple machines. Why lock up your backups?
Bob

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Which Software?
Jul 4, 2010 8:04AM PDT

Can you give me the names of some of the back-up software programs you recommend?

Renee

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CD and DVD recording software is backup software.
Jul 4, 2010 8:44AM PDT

You may have and use Nero, Roxio or another title. You can use that as your backup software to put the files and folders you can't lose onto DVDRW media the same way you would any file. This is backup at its finest. It can be copied back to where you want on almost any machine or OS.

Some can't use this and for them they discover backups that didn't restore later. My replies are to warn about this trouble. Let's find someone that wished they knew this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BvpOJKSgMA notes at about one minute into the video that problem. In other words, don't backup the entire machine!

Bob

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Here's how.
Jul 4, 2010 9:10AM PDT
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Free Back-Up Software
Jul 4, 2010 10:17AM PDT

I have found a free back-up program called FBackup. It gets really good reviews here on Cnet so I'm going to download that. I also plan to get some USB flash drives to back-up to as well. Hopefully by having 2 different back-ups I'll be in good shape.

Thanks for all of your help.

Renee

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Backups.....
Jul 4, 2010 10:51AM PDT

To me, they are copies. I just create data CDs [or DVDs] of them files. I can make more copies of these CDs and keep them safe at different locations. To "restore". I just copy again back to the Hard Disk.... Sometimes, I need to "take ownership" of them before I can have access to them, but that is not a problem.

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Still Can't Back-Up
Jul 6, 2010 6:59AM PDT

I downloaded FBackup from cnet as it got great reviews. I have Quickbooks with 2 companies on it. I am trying to back-up one company file to a dvd-rw. I do not want both company files to be on the same dvd. Can you someone tell me how to back-up one company file to a dvd at a time? Nothing I do is working and I've been trying to figure this out since my last post.

Thanks so much for all of the help,

Renee

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As Papa Echo already said ...
Jul 6, 2010 7:21AM PDT

you don't need a backup program to burn one file (or even one whole folder) to a DVD. Any burning program (like the one that came with your burner, or free cdburnerxp from www.cdburnerxp.se) does.
That's even easier than configuring a full-backup program that you can't configure for the job you want in this case.

Kees

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Quick Books...
Jul 6, 2010 9:56AM PDT

If the two companies are combined in one quickbook file, then you have to seperate them into two files, and burn each file to a different CD/DVD as 'Data'. Again, we are not talking about a "backup program" which you can download. That is a wrong tool for what you want to do. Use the burning tool[program] which came with your burner.