I just bought Backup Exec Desktop for Windows (formerly Seagate, now owned
by Veritas software). Found it at Buy.com for about $58. It supports
backups to CD-R or CD-RW. For my Mac I use Retrospect Express, which allows
backup to CD-R or RW as well. Both pieces of software are highly rated.
Both allow selection of individual files for backup, compression, etc. You
can restore individual files, folders, or the entire drive. The CD-R or RW
is a great method. As a bonus, you can also burn Audio CDs (using Toast or
Easy CD, both from Adaptec, and both come with many drive bundles).
Hope this helps.
Mike
[I have no affiliation to any of the companies mentioned]
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Windrim, Brian
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 6:57 AM
To: 'olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [OM] CD backup (was Zip drive repair?)
Denton Taylor wrote:
>> Are you able to copy normal files to the CD? I have been able both to
copy
>> files and run the backup software with no problem...
I guess that Denton is running Adaptec DirectCD. As Acer mentioned, it's a
special filesystemthat lets you use a CDR or CDRW as a read/write volume.
The caveats are
that you need the software installed to be able to read the discs and that,
on CDR,
deleted space isn't recovered (obviously). DirectCD is bundled (along with
EasyCD Creator) with most new CDRW drives.
Adaptec have a new piece of software, called Take Two, which runs on top of
DirectCD
and can make a complete "image" backup of a partition or an entire disc, and
can
restore the system from the CD(s) via an emergency boot floppy.
That's the theory, anyway. After waiting months for it to become available,
I got
Take Two as part of CD Creator 4 Deluxe (the only way you can get it at the
moment)
and installed it under Win98. Every time I try to make a backup with Take
Two, it
crashes with an "illegal instruction" error. The new version of DirectCD
itself works
fine, as did the previous version which came with the drive.
YMMV and I wouldn't take this as damning until I've spent some more time
trying to
sort it out.I may also try it under NT4, but I prefer to keep new software
on the
Win98 side for testing as NT is where I do real work. I would also expect
Win98
versions to have received *more* QA testing as that's where the bulk of the
market is.
I have no affiliation to Adaptec (if that needed to be said).
-Brian
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