ASR. can it be compressed?

[Modelingfrog]

I created a "automated system recovery" file and it is 1.7gigs.
how can I get this file to CD-R or RW without screwing things up?


currently only running on a 6gig quantum fireball with a filled 3gig slave.
I want to make best of what space I do have. (saving up for an 80 gig sata)

 

[Albatross Singh]

Greetings

If you have Roxio 5 or greater, it will split the file onto two or more CD's
using the Retrieve software that is a part of it. Sorry, thats the only
solution I know, and if you don't have roxio, its no good for you

Albatross Singh

 

[Modelingfrog]

I will have a look and see what I can do about Roxio. thanks !

 

[Modelingfrog]

I had a look at the roxio site, and because i dont make online purchases, i
will have to get a retail version of roxio.

so i ask, will nero 5.5 or 6 work for what I need to do?
i know it has a backup tool, should i just use that instead of the one that
comes with xp?
(I dont know much about images)
signed;
Modelingfrog

 

[Hilary Karp]

I would recommend you look to an imaging program instead of using ASR.
Something like ghost or drive image. I use drive image which was
formerly from powerquest by now owned by Symantec. It makes a complete
image of your drive with 3 different levels of compression. This has
the option to break the file into pieces of whatever size you specify so
they will fit on a CD. If your system crashes you put in the program CD
which is also bootable, and restore the image. It works much better
than ASR. I did a test on it the other day, making both, then restoring
both. The ASR takes so much longer to restore with. It starts by
reinstalling XP from the windows CD, then it restores the ASR file.
After the restore my AV program was messed up. I just popped in the
Drive Image bootable CD, and was up and runnng in a matter of a few
minutes. There was no comparison.

.....and I don't know if ASR will work by reading from a CD especially
when the file spans multiple CDs. I had the file stored on a second
hard drive.