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Old 23 August 2011, 01:22 PM
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Been hunting round on the 'net to find a program that I can just point at a directory (e.g. Music) and it will work out how many DVDs I need to back it up and what the best way is, for example

Disc 1:

ABBA
Athlete
Blur
98% full

Disc 2:

Dodgy
Dreadzone
Goldfrapp
95% full

and so on.

If it could fully automate the process (aside from sticking each disc in) then even better. Don't really want to use a compression program e.g. Winrar or Winzip as I still want to be able to get at the data if one of the discs fails. Also most of it is compressed already (i.e. MP3/JPEG/DIVX etc.) so no need.

I found this http://hcidesign.com/dvdspan/ which sounds like it will do what I want but the download link is broken, I even emailed the site owner and just got a reply "Thanks for the heads up" Dubious about trying to purchase a license for said application in case I never get one.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

CD
Old 23 August 2011, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Coffin Dodger
Been hunting round on the 'net to find a program that I can just point at a directory (e.g. Music) and it will work out how many DVDs I need to back it up and what the best way is, for example

Disc 1:

ABBA
Athlete
Blur
98% full

Disc 2:

Dodgy
Dreadzone
Goldfrapp
95% full

and so on.

If it could fully automate the process (aside from sticking each disc in) then even better. Don't really want to use a compression program e.g. Winrar or Winzip as I still want to be able to get at the data if one of the discs fails. Also most of it is compressed already (i.e. MP3/JPEG/DIVX etc.) so no need.

I found this http://hcidesign.com/dvdspan/ which sounds like it will do what I want but the download link is broken, I even emailed the site owner and just got a reply "Thanks for the heads up" Dubious about trying to purchase a license for said application in case I never get one.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

CD

CD download link working,i will try to upload on 4shared if that's help,there.

Jura
Old 23 August 2011, 01:32 PM
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CDBurnerXP this can do similar job like DVD Span

http://www.techgravy.net/2011/05/how...dburnerxp.html

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Old 23 August 2011, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jura11
CD download link working,i will try to upload on 4shared if that's help,there.

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That's odd, just tried to download it with IE and it's fine, just Firefox acting weird, oh well....

Anyway keep 'em coming, CDBurnerXP looks like an interesting option especially as it's free
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Portable Hard Drive or Two?? Backing up to DVD is a bit 90's.
Old 23 August 2011, 02:34 PM
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Portable Hard Drive or Two?? Backing up to DVD is a bit 90's.
DVDs are relatively permanent though and I only want to archive stuff, not do incremental backups etc. (would use a plug in HDD for that...).
Old 23 August 2011, 03:07 PM
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Don't you have the original CD's? I have a loft full of them and now Apple keep a copy on icloud for free.
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Originally Posted by JackClark
Don't you have the original CD's? I have a loft full of them and now Apple keep a copy on icloud for free.
All downloaded from Amazon etc.
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Also spent ages getting the ID3 tags right in them, original CDs don't have that stuff embedded
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Another reason it pays to use Apple.
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This will help too

http://softwaretopic.informer.com/al...e-to-dvd-span/

http://www.genie9.com/ on this you will need serial,but with little search you will find

http://www.backup4all.com/ this will help too,but again just trial with some search are available serials


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