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Nicole -> CD-R or CD-RW? (9/2/2005 23:25:10)
I'm reallly a bit embarrased to be asking what to most would be the dumbest question imaginable, but here goes.... I like to back up all my files, websites, word documents, excel spreadsheets, images etc, roughly about once a week. I have about 250mb worth of these files and was saving them to a CD-R and then tossing the old one out each week when I backed up on a new disk. I've moved on to CD-RW's now, and was doing the same back-ups as i thought the purpose of CD-RW's was to over-write any old files that were the same and just add the new ones? But it seems that i'm only getting to do these back-ups twice per CD-RW and the third time it says that I'm out of space on the disk, which would indicate to me that it's saving everything once, then it's saving everything once again then there's not enough space to do another back-up on that disk. I'm not even going to try and keep a record of what files I change each week and just upload them (way too much trouble), so should I go back to CD-R's and just throw them out after each new back-up (or store them somewhere), or am I just missing the point? I'm not talking about any programs, just files I may or may not create or update. Help? Nicole

Spooky -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/2/2005 23:53:04)
Itll only over write if you tell it to? If you save the same file in the same location, it will write over it. It sounds as if you are adding a whole new directory and filling up the disk?

Nicole -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/2/2005 23:57:20)
Hi Spooky, ...then it should be over-writing the files.... I'm just going to "My Documents" and clicking on the icons like "My Webs" "Correspondence" etc, there's no new folders or if i do create one i expect it to also create one. So does that constitute same locations??

Spooky -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/2/2005 23:58:45)
You just drag the files to the CD drive?

Nicole -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 0:03:37)
Yep, using Windows Explorer.? I've just noticed the "Delete CD-RW" note under "File" so I've just deleted the contents of this disk and will upload all the files again. But that shouldn't be the way to do it should it? Nicole

Spooky -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 0:04:49)
Yep, windows. I guess the other option is to quick format the disk first if all else fails?

Nicole -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 0:07:46)
Thanks anyway Spooky, I promise I'll support the All-Blacks tonight now!

Spooky -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 0:47:03)
Its gonna be a cracker ;-)

d a v e -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 0:48:47)
another thing you could do is buy a USB memory stick, leave it plugged in and just drag your files to there or use the 'send to' in the context menu on a folder/file when you right click. 512mb isn't so expensive. the memoery stick might be a bit quicker than the cd... one thing though to remember if you do use a memory stick is always to use the 'Safely remove hardware' icon in the system tray before removing it. 9 times out of 10 you can get away with just pulling out the stick but the tenth time you'll lose/corrupt your data ;)

womble -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 13:20:58)
Or invest in an external hard drive? I was using CD-RWs but got so confused over what was on which one, which was which backup, and I was only backing up what was 'essential'. I got a 60Gb usb mobile hard drive pretty cheap, and now I just plug it in, set it off and wander off and do something else for a while, while it backs the whole thing up (though I do still have a couple of CD-RW's with 'important' stuff as well 'cos I'm paranoid! [:D])

Spooky -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/3/2005 14:07:38)
I went DVD RW so that I could keep more files - its nice to keep 6mths backup on one disc rather than 20!

Charles W Davis -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/17/2005 19:37:05)
I simply have two internal hard drives instaled on both mine and my wife's computers. The computers share some folders and the second hard drives. I use Windows XP Pro Backup program. Each month we back up to the second hard drive in the other's computers overwriting the prior backup. Weekly we only back up the changed files. I back up the "My Documents" folder which contains all downloaded programs, fonts, images, web sites, QuickBooks files for 8 companies, etc. Three times in the past 3 1/2 years with XP Pro I have had to retrieve a Word document. It worked flawlessly.

Larry M. -> RE: CD-R or CD-RW? (9/17/2005 20:09:58)
If there's room for one more opinion, here's mine: I use DVD+R's. They hold about 4.3 gb of data. I'm uncomfortable overwriting anything; I keep my weekly backups in an old 100 capacity CDR case. I only shred my backup DVD+R's when the case is full, then start with the bottom 25 only. I too have had to recover files and have been able to do so without any problem [8D]

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