Backup

[rogeepete]

Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I want to
store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the choices listed.
I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I have a blank cd in the
drive.

How can I do the backup onto cd's?

Thanks

 

[Daave]

Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I
want to store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the
choices listed. I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I
have a blank cd in the drive.

How can I do the backup onto cd's?

You didn't mention which program you used. Ntbackup doesn't allow for
backing up to CDs or DVDs. Either get an external hard drive or use a
program that will allow you to back up to CDs or DVDs.

Acronis True Image has lots of fans. If you're looking for something
free, have a look at:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#5.00BackupFiles

 

[rogeepete]

I'm running Win XPPro, and following their instructions for the back up...I
says I can back up to my floppy or my zip but there is no cd drive listed as
an option.

 

[David B.]

Re read the reply, I quote "Ntbackup doesn't allow for backing up to CDs or
DVDs", you'll have to use 3rd party software to back up to CD/DVD

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[rogeepete]

At risk of multiposting, when you say NT Backup, etc....are you saying Win
XP? I'm not running Win NT

 

[Alias]

At risk of multiposting, when you say NT Backup, etc....are you saying Win
XP? I'm not running Win NT

Yes, you are. Vista is another version of NT as well.

Alias

 

[David B.]

XP is in the NT family, NT Backup is the outdated backup utility.

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[Daave]

Ntbackup (NTBACKUP.MSI) is the name of XP's backup program:

http://www.winxptutor.com/ntbackup.htm

At risk of multiposting, when you say NT Backup, etc....are you
saying Win
XP? I'm not running Win NT

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#5.00BackupFiles

 

[HeyBub]

Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I
want to store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the
choices listed. I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I
have a blank cd in the drive.

How can I do the backup onto cd's?

Assuming you have an 80Gig drive that's half full. Further assume the backup
can achieve 50% compression (on average). This means the backup will need
20Gigs of backup media.

Since a CD can hold, oh, 650Megs, you'll need about 31 CDs. At eight minutes
apiece, four hours to complete the backup.

Now you COULD replace the CD-drive with a DVD drive. DVDs hold upwards of 4
Gbytes. That means you'll only need five DVDs, and, at 25 minutes apiece,
you should be done in an a little over two hours.

Of course if you have 80Gigs worth of stuff to back up, you'll need to
double the above estimates.

 

[Plato]

Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I want to
store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the choices listed.
I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I have a blank cd in the
drive.

Backups of your most important directories is the most important, NOT a
backup of your entire drive. Do backups of your most important data on
several forms of media. Heck, I just got a few 2 gig USB sticks for $15
each.