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    backing up to DVD

    right chaps i need some help please. i want to back up all my music to one set of dvd's and all my video's to another set of dvd's and my pictures to another set.

    i know i could just do this by dragging and dropping folders until each disc is full, but i have very large amounts of data to put on there and frankly i would rather something else did it for me.

    Nero seems to have a 'back-it-up' function where it will do it, has anyone tried it before?

    picasa does the same for photos and even marks the ones that have been backed up which is nice. anyone tried this too?

    open to any suggestions.

    thanks

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    no one got any ideas?

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    Sorry, i haven't tried the backup function on either of them.

    I have my photos backed up onto an external drive (a sony photo vault thingy). And my music archive is just too big to back up right now (313gig and counting)

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    fair play, i just fancy some kind of a hard copy of it as well, just in case

    and that is really a very lagre music collection

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    I do back up to DVD about once a month too, but as i only back up the new stuff, i only need a few for email archives, photos and documents etc.

    I have just over 800 albums as FLAC on a drive. In the process of trnascoding them all to AAC (for my K750) OGG (for my RIO Karma) and MP3 (for general use). It's going to take a while, about 3 days and nights for each format and about 50gig

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    Quote Originally Posted by noah

    Nero seems to have a 'back-it-up' function where it will do it, has anyone tried it before?

    picasa does the same for photos and even marks the ones that have been backed up which is nice. anyone tried this too?

    open to any suggestions.

    thanks
    I use Nero Backitup, I found it does the job perfectly. You can even create a backup job, you tell it where all your file and folders are situated and it will backit up for your wherever you want, disc, CD, DVD. If the Dvd is too small, it will simply ask you to insert the next disc and so on. I don't think you can have more straightforward than that. You can even create incremental backup so that it will only add what hasn't backedup before!

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    Have a look at this software too, I haven't tried it but user reviews are fairly good and it seems to do what you want if you don't want to pay anything!

    http://www.simplysafebackup.com/

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    thanks for that mate, i didnt realise the incremental bit, that's jsut what i need

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    Noah,

    Did this end up letting you do what you want?

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