Not sure of any program that would do that. If I were you I would just burn my data to the DVD-R's, not sure what you mean by automated.

Or better yet get an external hard drive. I just got and external usb hard drive that holds 120 gigs. Thats way more convienent then having a bunch of DVD's laying around.

Yeah i was thinking bout an external drive too but i don't have the money for that.

with "automated" i mean a program where u select a directory or harddisk and it tells u "10 dvds needed. please insert 1 of 10" and so on... like the old backup programs for PC that did backups on 1.44mb floppy disks (real oldschool *g*)

and if your harddisk crashes u just install the backup program, insert the 1st dvd and it puts the whole file/directory structure back on your new harddisk.

Well like I said I don't know of a program that does that for DVD-R's. But a program that came with my exteranal drive does that.

If all else fails just manualy burn the stuff to DVD-R's one at a time.

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Johnjm22 wrote:
If all else fails just manualy burn the stuff to DVD-R's one at a time.

but that's the problem. i cant see all files in the directory. "too many files to show" (or something similar) is the error message.

so how can i burn ALL the files now?

The best way is to take an image of the drive or partition containing the data you want to back up. I can only presume that there are programs that do this for the Mac - I use Norton Ghost to do this for my PC. That program can compress the files, and you can specify what size the resulting image can be split up to, so that you can burn the parts to other media. What I do is create the image on a separate partition on my hard drive, and then take a copy of this onto an external hard drive (rather than burning the image as you prefer). The only downside is that you would need enough space on your hard drive to store the compressed image before burning.

But this is a great way to back-up - I backup my system partition and this has saved the day on a number of occasions. Hope there is a similar product like Ghost for the Mac (if indeed Ghost doesn't support Mac)

ok that sounds cool but that's the problem. hard disk is at 70% ;-)

isnt there a program like norton ghost that directly burns onto dvd?

Yes I believe you can burn the image parts direct with Ghost, but I can't confirm that from my own use. Check out the Norton site for more info.

i did. it's only for pc platform. i don't understand why it's so hard to find something like this for mac.

*help* ;-)

I have checked another vendor of imaging software (Acronis) but they too are PC only. I guess the best way to find if there are similar applications for the Mac is to do a Google search for something like Drive Image for Mac. Also a good Mac forum or newsgroup surely must be able to assist. I would be very surpirsed if there is not a similar program for Mac users. Then again, maybe I wouldn't :wink:

hehe ok thanks a lot ;-)

Mezzo on Macintosh and Retrospect are two good software for b/u. You can use a large variety of device: tape, hard drive, dvd, cd...

hey that's great. thanks!