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Spot|DSE wrote on 1/3/2006, 6:36 PM
Nero 7 does a great job of spanning disks.
gdstaples wrote on 1/3/2006, 7:29 PM
I have Nero 7. Are you talking about the Back-it-Up program? I was just very concerned about file headers and such with AVI - with your recent AVI corruption thread and all.

Duncan
John_Cline wrote on 1/3/2006, 8:20 PM
I use the archive program, WinRAR, from www.rarsoft.com. It can split files into DVD size chunks. Since AVI files don't compress well at all, I just set RAR to store them instead of attempting to compress them. Consequently, it will create the archives very quickly.

WinRAR also features recovery record and recovery volumes which allows you to reconstruct even physically damaged archives. You can also password protect your archives and create self-extracting archives, so you can extract your archives on machines that don't have WinRAR (or Nero) installed.

I burn the resulting RAR files to DVD using NERO. The RAR method isn't quite as straight-forward as just using the NERO BackItUp program, but it has its advantages.

John
p@mast3rs wrote on 1/3/2006, 8:25 PM
Actually, I use HJoin as it allows you to join and split and then I use Quickpar to create recovery files and keep content and recovery files seperate in case something happens that I cant recover a file off the backup and it ensures I have the file exactly how I backed it up. :)
gdstaples wrote on 1/3/2006, 10:06 PM
Much appreciated.

I have WinRAR as well and will try both Nero 7 and WinRAR.

Duncan