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Homeslice · 17 Apr 2007 at 12:48

I want to backup to DVD once a week. Machine will have two DVD-RW drives in.

I want to backup to both at the same time, I guess like a SCSI drive.

Anyone got suggestions on how to achieve this?

bledd · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:03

best way for home users to backup (imo)

is synctoy + usb2 external hard drive

Homeslice · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:19

bledd. said:
best way for home users to backup (imo)

is synctoy + usb2 external hard drive

Thanks Bledd, should have added though, this is a mini server running RAID 1

The once a week DVD faff is purely an offsite storage

bledd · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:22

do you want it to be unattended? (ie, you leave a dvdr in the drive and it automatically backups up specific files/folders to the drive?)

is it a lot of data? (ie, would compressing it into a 7zip file first be needed?)

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html (freeware)
7-zip command line version

http://www.commandburner.com/ (freeware)
(usage here http://www.commandburner.com/docs.html )

you can put together a bat file to get 7za.exe to compress the directory(s) and save in one file, then get commandburner to burn it to disc straight after, then you'd use windows task scheduler to schedule the weekly / daily backup

Homeslice · 17 Apr 2007 at 13:44

bledd. said:
do you want it to be unattended?

Ideally, yes or at least to take place at 4pm on a Friday afternoon.

is it a lot of data? (ie, would compressing it into a 7zip file first be needed?)

It will need to be compressed first I should imagine

Thanks for the links.

Is there a way to get it to dual copy to DVD at the same time?

Reason I ask is that two managers would like a weekly copy so that if one of them lost a disc AND something happened at the office, there would still be another disc.

bledd · 17 Apr 2007 at 14:16

i'll have a look at that burner program for you tonight or tomorrow

should be able to specify which drive (so be able to make two discs)

basmic · 17 Apr 2007 at 14:17

Homeslice said:
Ideally, yes or at least to take place at 4pm on a Friday afternoon.

It will need to be compressed first I should imagine

Thanks for the links.

Is there a way to get it to dual copy to DVD at the same time?

Reason I ask is that two managers would like a weekly copy so that if one of them lost a disc AND something happened at the office, there would still be another disc.

Just tell commandburner to burn to one drive first, then burn again to the second drive. For the sake of 8 extra minutes (at 8x), it's what I'd do for an automated backup.

basmic · 17 Apr 2007 at 14:19

basmic said:
Just tell commandburner to burn to one drive first, then burn again to the second drive. For the sake of 8 extra minutes (at 8x), it's what I'd do for an automated backup.

Just looked, not sure if Bledd's recommended program does allow you to choose a burner.

Try this: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/CreateCD.htm