backup disks to Database?

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Hi all. For about 5 years now I periodically backup data, docs, programs,
graphics, films, etc. to CDs and DVDs. I have quite a few disks, and
whenever I want something I have backed up, I have to go through numerous
disks to find it. Tends to be a bit of a PITA. Are there any programs that
would read the files on the disks, and write them to a database? Would save
time.
Thanks!
 
LMO said:
Hi all. For about 5 years now I periodically backup data, docs,
programs, graphics, films, etc. to CDs and DVDs. I have quite a few
disks, and whenever I want something I have backed up, I have to go
through numerous disks to find it. Tends to be a bit of a PITA. Are
there any programs that would read the files on the disks, and write
them to a database? Would save time.
Thanks!
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Assuming your CD/DVD drive is d: and you just copied files to there this
will create a text listing of the files on a disk.

dir D:\*.* /s > C:\path\filename.txt

If you use the volume name of the CD/DVD for filename.txt and they are
labelled that way you can use the search function built into XP to find a
filename or part of a filename. The filename.txt will tell you what disk it
is on. If you have a lot of disks it will take a bit of time to index the
current ones. Once you have them indexed it takes seconds whenever you
create a new backup. My partner has over 1,000 disks spanning several years
of graphics work indexed this way. She can locate a file and the appropriate
disk in less than a minute. If you have multiple copies of the same file on
different disks then you can sort by date to see which disk has the newest
one. You have to use descriptive file names and a unique volume name for
each disk for it to work.

Kerry
 
LMO said:
Hi all. For about 5 years now I periodically backup data, docs, programs,
graphics, films, etc. to CDs and DVDs. I have quite a few disks, and
whenever I want something I have backed up, I have to go through numerous
disks to find it. Tends to be a bit of a PITA. Are there any programs that
would read the files on the disks, and write them to a database? Would save
time.
Thanks!
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Look at these:

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/diskcat.html

Steve N.
 
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