How to easily backup 125GB on to DVDs?

Tommy B · 20 Sep 2007 at 20:40

I'm heading off to uni on Fri. I have a 125GB music collection and have not backed it up. Funnily enough, I would be more upset if my music collection was stolen than the laptop itself. iTunes does not support my laptop's BR drive and I can't use that

Which programme will let me backup my music folder accross however many DVDs required?

Many thanks!

Dangerous Dave · 20 Sep 2007 at 20:50

Personally I would buy a external HD can be had for around £40-50 certainly a lot easer than backing up to over 30 dvds. Software wise however I beleave Nero lets you pan disks or even windows backup selecting to backup a folder can span it over multiple cds/dvds

LoadsaMoney · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:02

or if you have a spare internal hard drive, just buy one of those £20 odd external cases so you can connect it up by USB and just dump what yer need on it.

marc2003 · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:06

125gb on dvds? you insane? an external usb drive is the only sensible solution to this.

Tommy B · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:22

I have one, but the music is on that anyway! and i'm taking that to uni. If it got stolen I would cry like a little girl.

Tommy B · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:23

125GB is about 27 DVDs so it's do-able

badbob · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:26

I would backup onto paper tape. :-)

marc2003 · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:33

Tommy B said:
125GB is about 27 DVDs so it's do-able

well you don't want an automated span set. what if you lose/corrupt one disk? the whole lot's ******. just do it manually.

badbob · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:37

I've backed GB into DVD-R's. Fine if you just use Nero and backup directory by directory, bit slow bit you'll get through it eventually. Although if you have files bigger than 4GB you'll need to split with rar. I guess then proper burning sw with spanning would come in handy.

Bennah · 20 Sep 2007 at 21:55

So the music collection is on an external HD atm then?

Why dont you get a cheap external HD encloser and pop an internal HD in there and transfer the music to the new HD?

Backing it all up on DVD's would take forever.

McManicMan · 20 Sep 2007 at 23:14

Dual Layer Media - only 14 discs, better than 27odd dvdr's

MikeHunt79 · 21 Sep 2007 at 00:10

the quickest way would be to use a computer with 30 or so dvd burners in (if the hard drive could keep up). :cool:

rpstewart · 21 Sep 2007 at 08:55

Bennah said:
Backing it all up on DVD's would take forever.

Call it 30 DVDs to make the numbers easier. Seven, maybe eight minutes a go in a 16x burner, that's only 3.5 to 4 hours. An evening but hardly forever.

"andy" · 21 Sep 2007 at 16:07

get another external drive and just leave that one at home somewhere safe

Mr Jack · 21 Sep 2007 at 16:10

+1 for get another HDD and backup to that.

Yes, you can use DVDs but it'll be awful tedious and awful tedious != regular backups.

Energize · 21 Sep 2007 at 16:32

Tommy B said:
I'm heading off to uni on Fri. I have a 125GB music collection and have not backed it up. Funnily enough, I would be more upset if my music collection was stolen than the laptop itself. iTunes does not support my laptop's BR drive and I can't use that

You could just use nero?

IAmATeaf · 21 Sep 2007 at 16:32

rpstewart said:
Call it 30 DVDs to make the numbers easier. Seven, maybe eight minutes a go in a 16x burner, that's only 3.5 to 4 hours. An evening but hardly forever.

If they're that important then you'll need to do a verify which will add around another 8 hours to the above.

bigmouse64 · 21 Sep 2007 at 17:33

I back up as I go, so when I've got 4gb of music, I burn it, lable it, and add it to the list, on #102 dvd now

Tommy B · 21 Sep 2007 at 21:06

I backed it all up onto an interal HD on our family computer.

cheers ppl

HangTime · 21 Sep 2007 at 23:08

I remember around 2001 or so when I knew my main storage hd was on the way out (back in the days of the IBM Deathstar...) I backed up a lot of mp3 collection onto CD-R, never mind DVD-R. Was only 14 discs, however 16x DVD is a fair bit faster than 32x CD.