LF DVD burning software

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Rob Kelk

I recently picked up an OEM-version (i.e. no software) DVD writer. The
CD burning software I have doesn't do DVDs.

What I'd like to do with the DVD burner is (a) backup the hard drive,
and (b) put short animations (in various avi, mov, and mpg formats) onto
discs that I can play on the DVD player (which in my case requires
DVD-Rs). I suspect point "b" will be harder to fulfill than point
"a"... What freeware will or will not do what I want to do? Are any
programs easier to use than others? Do any give me more options than
others?

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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Little Girl

Hey there,
I recently picked up an OEM-version (i.e. no software) DVD writer. The
CD burning software I have doesn't do DVDs.
What I'd like to do with the DVD burner is (a) backup the hard drive,

I've tried quite a few backup and synchronization programs recently,
and I'd have to say without any hesitation that SyncBack won hands
down as being the most powerful and versatile.

With this program you can set up profiles for each job you'd like it
to do, and you can group these profiles to be run together. For each
profile you set up, you decide if you want the folders/files
compressed or not, and you decide which files/subfolders you want
backed up or synchronized. From then on you just run the profiles or
groups. No further work is needed.

It can do its synchronization and backups to networks, removable
media, and FTP servers, as well as to your hard drive(s). It will work
with the Windows Task Scheduler, and it will take command line
parameters. It will do CRC32 and MD5 comparisons. Although it's
extremely powerful, it has a wonderful safety feature built in - you
can take each job or group of jobs on a simulated run at any time to
be sure it's going to do exactly what you want it to. This is
especially useful when you've told it to delete empty destination
directories or files not found in the source, or to overwrite files
that have changed. And last but not least, it doesn't even require
installing.

I absolutely love this program, and I only wish I'd found it sooner.
:)

SyncBack v3.2.8
http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
 
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Richard Steven Hack

I recently picked up an OEM-version (i.e. no software) DVD writer.
The CD burning software I have doesn't do DVDs.

What I'd like to do with the DVD burner is (a) backup the hard drive,
and (b) put short animations (in various avi, mov, and mpg formats)
onto discs that I can play on the DVD player (which in my case
requires DVD-Rs). I suspect point "b" will be harder to fulfill than
point "a"... What freeware will or will not do what I want to do?

You want CDBurnerXPPro here:
http://cdburnerxp.se/

However, it doesn't do backups. Most freeware backup utilities will not
write directly to a CD or DVD unless it is a CD/RW or DVD/RW with some
sort of UDF utility like InCD which allows Windows to treat the drive as
basically a big diskette.
 
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Rob Kelk

You want CDBurnerXPPro here:
http://cdburnerxp.se/

However, it doesn't do backups. Most freeware backup utilities will not
write directly to a CD or DVD unless it is a CD/RW or DVD/RW with some
sort of UDF utility like InCD which allows Windows to treat the drive as
basically a big diskette.

I can live with doing manual backups. Thanks for the lead!
 

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