[Q] DVD Backup program that will order files into DVD size..

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30GB? Are they in one directory? If they are, create 7 directories; sort
your source dir by file size and start moving files from the biggest to
smallest into 7 locations (up to DVD size). Shouldn't take too long. Then
burn each directory to a separate DVD.

"john iv" <mame32qa@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have 30Gigs of info I'd like to back up to DVD+R. The files range from
a
> few K to 1.2G. Are there any Win32 programs that will analyse the backup
> job and order the files such that I can just toss in DVD after DVD and get
> close to max capacity for each disk across the backup?
>
> The caveat, the files should all be accessible from explorer, not in a
> proprietary backup / compressed form. This sadly leaves out Roxio's
> Retrieve method. Nero doesn't have something similar that I have seen.
Any
> ideas? I don't relish the thought of having to manually carve up 30Gigs
> into 4G chunks. Thanks -
>
>