Backup to DVD spanning multiple disks

[Katch]

Can anyone help me out by pointing me at some software that I can use to make a backup of a bunch of files to multiple DVDs.

Specifically I have a large collection of music that I'd like backed up but it'd take me ages to portion it out into 4.7gb volumes and burn it. I'd like a program that I can point at my music folder and it will keep filling disks until the entire collection is backed up.

Any ideas?

 

[Hamster]

Surely burning the music is going to take a lot longer than the few seconds it takes selecting a bunch of folders that total just under 4.7GB. What i would do is select the first few folders that total 4.7GB and put them into a new folder '0001' and whilst burning the folders in '0001', select the next bunch totalling 4.7GB and put them in '0002'. Do it as you go along and it won't be a chore. Or am i missing something?!!

 

[Katch]

Surely burning the music is going to take a lot longer than the few seconds it takes selecting a bunch of folders that total just under 4.7GB. What i would do is select the first few folders that total 4.7GB and put them into a new folder '0001' and whilst burning the folders in '0001', select the next bunch totalling 4.7GB and put them in '0002'. Do it as you go along and it won't be a chore. Or am i missing something?!!

I want to leave the original file structure unchanged. I have over 200GB to backup - I really want something that just pops out a dvd and waits for the next one untill all files and folders ahve been written

 

[Hamster]

I know imgburn has some sort of queuing function for iso images but if there is one for files then i would imagine you would still have to batch the files manually. I have already outlined how i would do this but after you have burned the '000x' folders you can simply move the file/folders within back to your main music folder, retaining your original file/folder structure. It's not a process that would take very long at all; even if you batch the files into the numbered files first i can't imagine it taking more than a few minutes. If that's not quick enough for you then good luck finding a solution

 

[Vampyre]

I think WinRAR does disk spanning, you can certainly tell it to split the resultant RAR archive into DVD sized chunks

 

[Hamster]

I think WinRAR does disk spanning, you can certainly tell it to split the resultant RAR archive into DVD sized chunks

That's actually quite a clever solution but if one of the DVDRs gets damaged or corrupt, then it could be bye bye to the music collection backup.

Another possible solution, given that it will cost a fair bit for the DVDs, is to buy a cheap hard drive for backup.