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

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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 -

 

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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 -
>
>