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Backup Help!!

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RuSty13

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Hey Guys, I want to reformat my computer, and I have about 50-60 Gigs of music and I was just wondering, is there anyway to back it up withough burning it all to CD's :( :( ??

Like can you create a Norton Ghost Image and Save it to a CD?

PLEASE HELP, I don't want to lose all my music or use 500,000,000 cd's to burn it all!

Thanks in advance,

-RuSty13
 
you can image to a spanned set of CDs, but the compresssion isnt going to be all that great
at least dependent on the file type
compressing compressed files rarely is
 
I always recommend Backup
I moderate the Data Storage Forum
get it on Hard Media, there are just too many possible ways to loose data
even another HDD is still susceptible (power, virus, impact, pilot error)
but any way you cut it its still nearly 50GB

but I will say there are more advantages to having multiple HDDs than just having a place to shuffle data around to

Id say make them independent sets, that way if one goes bad over time, the rest arent lost
data archiving is a slightly more complex subject than what your currently trying to solve, but you should consider it now anyway
 
Ice Czar said:
I always recommend Backup
I moderate the Data Storage Forum
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By saying "I Always Reccomend Backup", are you talking about windows defualt backup system or what?
 
I mean burning to CD, DVD or Tape

Hard Media

the alternative is multiple locations on multiple RAID arrays that are actually using a redundant level (1,3,5,0+1,30,50,31,51), not a single RAID array mind you but a few, even then there is still risk

I do all the above

as far as what to use, well there is the Windows Backup, Stomp's Backup My PC,
a host of other aps your basic burning of data files, and Images (Ghost ect)

In this case I think Basic Burning beacuse as I said if it a spanned image then a total restore is the only option (and if one CD is bad then its all gone), and it sounds like what you need at this stage is more flexability than that.
 
Just get a buddy that has 50 to 60 gigs and transfer them via network, or borrow a HD from him and hook it up internal

Or use 83 cd's : ) (would buy another Hard drive before that)
 
Snarf said:
Just get a buddy that has 50 to 60 gigs and transfer them via network, or borrow a HD from him and hook it up internal
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Ok thanks, I have a friend that actually has around 450 gigs I think, so I guess ill just do it like that

Snarf said:
Or use 83 cd's : ) (would buy another Hard drive before that)
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Yeah, haha me too.

Thanks again both of you for your help!
 
I'd also just borrow a HD from a friend, internal or external and that should cover you.

You could also just use this as an opportunity to go bargain hunting and pick up a large drive on sale. You can routinely find 120 and 160 gig drives for well under $100. :D
 
emorphien said:
You can routinely find 120 and 160 gig drives for well under $100. :D
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Really?! If your taking about internal then ok, but I looked on Newegg and the cheapest external was $109, and it was 80 Gigs :(
 
bump?

either you burn it to media, as seperate CD\DVD\Tape, or a spanned image to CD\DVD\Tape, or you copy it to another HDD as individual files or as an image

there really are no other alternatives assuming you dont have the space currently to shuffle it around on that drive (see below)
but I would again point out that I see dead HDDs everyday in here
and the people that are really hurting are those that have no hard backup
sure its alot of CDs now, but updating your backup from there shouldnt be that bad

the ideal solution would be dual layer DVD for the capacity with a full backup and then incrementals

the immediate solution for your needs however is more space somewhere

a possible alternative depending on exactly how large a HDD you currently have it to create a Primary Partion, move the data to that, then reinstall to the System Partition (also a primary) that would require both the space, and possibly the need to resize your current partition with Partition Magic. Make sure not to creat an Extended Partition with logical drives. You are allowed 4 Primary partitions or 3 Primary and One Extended Partition with its own logical drives per HDD in Windows (you can get around those limitation if you employ a 3rd party boot manager)
 
Are your computers networked? You can send all the music to another computer on the network if it has enough space on the drive. That's what I do when I'm not lazy enough to reformat :D
 
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