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Old 10-12-2005, 07:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Back up music and photos to DVD?

Hi, I have previously done a back up to DVD-R, but now I have bought DVD-RW, so I can re-use!
I suppose this is the best way to do a back up of stuff??
I have used Roxio before, but I have to use retreive to re install it, but now I have Nero, which I feel is better?
Music is WMA / MP3 and photos are JPEG.

Any ideas??

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Old 10-12-2005, 08:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Maybe it's me, but I thought I explained what I was asking??
Any ideas about any different methods of doing this back up.
Or just stick to doing it this way??

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Stick in the dvd-rw, load up **insert program here** click on data disk, copy over the files you want backing up and click burn
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I'd put a small partiton assuming you only have one hard drive and use that for quick backups. Its faster then using the RW method.
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I have used Roxio before, but I have to use retreive to re install it, but now I have Nero, which I feel is better?
IMO, Nero is a superior product

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Any ideas??
Just burn it as a multisession dataDVD

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Back up music and photos to DVD?


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I'd put a small partiton assuming you only have one hard drive and use that for quick backups. Its faster then using the RW method.
Agreed but the benifit of DVDs is that they are portable and sharable
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