What is a good backup application? I want to backup specific files and
directories and then burn the backup archive on dvd using any cdr
application.
There isn't any freeware that will do that directly without using the
UDF disk format. However, there are plenty of programs that will back
up files and directories to the hard drive, which you can then burn to
CD using Nero or whatever. In fact, the latest Nero has a backup
utility which is bit better than the older version.
I use XXCopy
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm utility to backup all
changed and new files from my various partitions to a backup
partition, then I just use Nero to burn various directories. XXCopy
is a command line extended copy program. Some of its features can be
hard to figure out how to use, but it can select and copy almost
anything. I just put a few calls to it with the appropriate options
in a batch file and run it periodically.
Simple, but effective. I probably could automate that further, using
tools ported from Linux, but so far I haven't found the time.