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Is there a way to burn a large backup file on multiple cds?

Mar 31, 2005 10:03PM PST

My father knows enough about computers to be dangerous. This is why I'm asking him to wipe his machine and start fresh (no one truly knows what is existing on his machine right now). However, he of course needs to back up his important files before doing this. He is too stubborn to choose which files he should keep and which should be discarded, so he wants to create one big backup file. I'm hoping he will discard some stuff during this process, but there is no guarantee. This file will be way too big for one CD, and I know he won't buy a dvd burner. Is there a way we can create a backup file and burn it over multiple CDs? I know this is the only way I can convince him to do a backup at all... and with the way he uses his computer, he really should back up his data. We are currently using Microsoft's back utitlity, but I heard that's pretty old technology, so if there is something better out there, please let me know.

Thanks so much for your help!
Trish

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Backup.......
Apr 1, 2005 12:56PM PST

I don't know if other brands have this, but my new HP has a thing called "HP recovery CD-DVD creator. I made a backup with it, it took 8 CD's.

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You can try...
Apr 2, 2005 4:33AM PST

compress that big file into zip format (WinZip for example) with spanning option then burn those spanned files to the CDs.

For backup method I would used Symantec GHOST V.9. I don't trust Microsoft backup because it fail me quite a few time in the past.

Regards,