Scheduling Daily Burns - software to use?

onechewy

Hello! I'm trying to find some freeware/openware that will let me schedule daily burns to cd/dvd. I don't need the software to do anything other than burn specified folders/files to disc at a scheduled time everday.

I've had a look about but haven't been able to find anything just right, and I'm sure there's something out there.

Any suggestions?

Feelgood

Hey,

Might I suggest that you backup to a USB / Firewire hard drive instead if possible, that way all you have to do is run NTbackup from windows to
backup any files, folders etc..and it has a built in schdueler...and its FREE...

You could also try using NTBackup to backup to a CD/DVD, though havent tried this.....

=> Start
=> Run
=> NTBackup

I am foolishly assuming that you are using a Windows OS??

onechewy

I was the one being foolishly presumptuous... it is indeed windows I'm using, and server 2000 at that.

NTBackup won't work to CD/DVD unfortunately! But thank you for the suggestion.

I'll give a brief rundown of the situation.. On 5 separate machines here, using Winzip, I do Full/Incremental backups of whatever data I need, and then FTP them to a W2K machine that has a bank of DVDRW's in it. I use Nero OEM on that machine to burn the zips to DVD. I have to manually drag and drop files into the burning ROM window. Nero OEM doesn't have scheduling capability.

I do have Nero 7 Professional which has scheduling, but for some reason, it won't give me an option of write speeds, whereas the OEM version will. Burning at speeds faster than 8x produces frequent errors (relevant to the amount of stuff I burn, which is quite a lot).

It's not an overly inconvenient thing, I'd just like to have full automation and this is the last thing that needs sorting!

Thanks.

Feelgood

Hey Chewy,

Is there some particular reason that you are doing your backups to a DVD drive though?. Do they need to be sent offsite?.

As said you wont run into these problems using a small external USB hard drive...from my experience schdueled backups to CD/DVD just dont work!. Given the price of storage, you could buy 2 x 120GB external USB drives. Send them offsite if needs be on alternative days??.

The drives would also be quicker at backing up than a DVD drive....

onechewy

Thanks Feelgood,

Yeah, I know there's easier ways to be doing this.. but unfortunately, this is the way it has to be done.

I just found out that all versions of Nero come with command line functionality (nerocmd.exe funnily enough!) which I never knew.. so I'm going to give that a bash and see if I can get it going... I expect much head banging off keyboard though as the switches are a bit scary.

Feelgood

Good Stuff,

Sure lettuce know how it goes......gimme a shout if you stuck with the scripts..

:cool:

Capt'n Midnight

the switches on nero are flaky indeed

another option is to use mkisofs - get it with cdrtools
this creates an ISO
4GB limit though so you can't do 4.7 files
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/04/25/how-to-create-a-windows-bootable-cd-with-mkisofs/

write the ISO with microsofts CDBURN utility , maybe it's in the 2003 res kit or something

ntbackup does NOT compress / you can use 7za to compress multiple files into one

to date files use
%date:~0,2%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~6,4%

onechewy

I'm still trying to figure out NeroCMD, and I'm nearly there, but I'm obviously missing something. Each time I run the batch, it starts writing the lead in, and then fails. I get the following errorlog spat back at me each time I run:

"C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\NeroCmd.exe" --write --drivename f --real --no_user_interaction --speed 4 --dvd --recursive --iso test H:\Folder\*.* --create_iso_fs --close_session

I know these kind of logs are painful to read, but someone might spot something I'm not doing?

- Capt' N Midnight, I had a quick look at that exe you recommended, but it looked scary too, so I'm going to try and stick with Nero and see if I can get it working.


Windows XP 5.1

IA32

inAspi: -

ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.74, size=164112 bytes, created 02/11/2004 12:54:32
NT-SPTI used

Nero API version: 7.0.1.4

Using interface version: 6.6.0.1

Installed in: C:\Program Files\Nero\Nero 7\Core\

Application: nero\Nero - Burning Rom
Internal Version: 7, 0, 1, 4


Recorder: <TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D>Version: SB06 - HA 1 TA 0 - 7.0.1.4

Adapter driver: <IDE> HA 1

Drive buffer : 2048kB

Bus Type : via Inquiry data (1) -> ATAPI, detected: ?

Connected to MMC as unknown drive with class-nr : 1

Drive is autodetected - recorder class: Std. MMC recorder



=== Scsi-Device-Map ===

DiskPeripheral : Maxtor 6V200E0 atapi Port 3 ID 0 DMA: On

CdRomPeripheral : TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D atapi Port 5 ID 0 DMA: On

=== CDRom-Device-Map ===

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D F: CDRom0

=======================

AutoRun : 1

Excluded drive IDs:

WriteBufferSize: 83886080 (0) Byte

ShowDrvBufStat : 0

BUFE : 0

Physical memory : 2046MB (2095532kB)

Free physical memory: 1438MB (1473256kB)

Memory in use : 29 %

Uncached PFiles: 0x0

Use Inquiry : 1

Global Bus Type: default (0)

Check supported media : Disabled (0)

18.10.2007

NeroAPI

13:06:47 #1 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 525

ReadBuffer-Pipe got 81920KB of Memory



13:06:47 #2 Text 0 File Reader.cpp, Line 124

Reader running



13:06:47 #3 Text 0 File Writer.cpp, Line 113

Writer F: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D running



13:06:47 #4 Text 0 File AudioCompilationImpl.cpp, Line 842

DRM: StartDrmRecording(RealRec:1, ImageRec:0, Copies:1)

DRM: Beginning burn process.



13:06:47 #5 ISO9660GEN -11 File Geniso.cpp, Line 3312

First writeable address = 0 (0x00000000)



13:06:47 #6 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 3342

Turn on Disc-At-Once, using DVD media



13:06:47 #7 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 279

Last possible write address on media: 2298495 (510:46.45, 4489MB)

Last address to be written: 607 ( 0:08.07, 1MB)



13:06:47 #8 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 291

Write in overburning mode: NO



13:06:47 #9 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 2578

Recorder: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D, Media type: DVD-R

Disc Manufacturer: SONY16 - D1

Disc Application Code: 64, Disc Physical Code: 193



13:06:47 #10 Text 0 File DlgWaitCD.cpp, Line 458

>>> Protocol of DlgWaitCD activities: <<<

=========================================



13:06:47 #11 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 847

Setup items (after recorder preparation)

0: TRM_DATA_MODE1 ()

2 indices, index0 (150) not provided

original disc pos #0 + 608 (608) = #608/0:8.8

relocatable, disc pos for caching/writing not required/ required, no patch infos

-> TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048, config 0, wanted index0 0 blocks, length 608 blocks [F: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D]

---

13:06:48 #12 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1059

Prepare recorder [F: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D] for write in CUE-sheet-DAO

DAO infos:

==========

MCN: ""

TOCType: 0x00; Session Closed, disc not fixated

Tracks 1 to 1:

1: TRM_DATA_MODE1, 2048/0x00, FilePos 0 0 1245184, ISRC ""

DAO layout:

===========

__Start_|____Track_|_Idx_|_CtrlAdr_|_RecDep__________

0 | lead-in | 0 | 0x41 | 0x00

0 | 1 | 0 | 0x41 | 0x00

0 | 1 | 1 | 0x41 | 0x00

608 | lead-out | 1 | 0x41 | 0x00



13:06:48 #13 Text 0 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 36

SPTILockVolume - completed successfully for FCTL_LOCK_VOLUME



13:06:48 #14 Phase 24 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 278

Caching of files started



13:06:48 #15 Text 0 File Burncd.cpp, Line 4176

Cache writing successful.



13:06:48 #16 Phase 25 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 278

Caching of files completed



13:06:48 #17 Phase 36 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 278

Burn process started at 4x (5,540 KB/s)



13:06:48 #18 Text 0 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 2685

Verifying disc position of item 0 (relocatable, disc pos, no patch infos, orig at #0): write at #0



13:06:48 #19 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 2580

Recording mode: Sequential Recording Mode for Multisession



13:06:48 #20 Text 0 File MMC.cpp, Line 21611

Set BUFE: Super Link -> ON



13:06:48 #21 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 2735

Start write address at LBA 0

DVD high compatibility mode: No



13:06:48 #22 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 8411

---- DVD Structure: Physical Format Information (00h) ----

Layer: 0, Address: 0 (0 h), AGID: 0; Length: 2050

Book Type: DVD-R (2), Part Version: 2.0x (5), Extended Part Version: 2.1 (33)

Disc Size: 120 mm, Maximum Rate: <not specified> (F h)

Number of Layers: 1, Track Path: Parallel Track Path (PTP), Layer Type: recordable

Linear Density: 0,267 um/bit, Track Density: 0,74 um/track

Starting Physical Sector Number of Data Area: 30000 h (DVD-ROM, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW)

End Physical Sector Number of Data Area: 0 h

End Sector Number in Layer 0: 0 h (LBN: FFFD0000 h, 4193920 MB)

Data in Burst Cutting Area (BCA) does not exist

Start sector number of the current Border-Out: 0 h

Start sector number of the next Border-In: 0 h

Media Specific [16..63]:

00 60 00 10 20 30 40 50 - 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 .`...0@P...!....

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................



13:07:02 #23 CDR -1 File Writer.cpp, Line 302

Unspecified Recorder Error

F: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D



13:07:02 #24 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 228

all writers idle, stopping conversion



13:07:02 #25 Text 0 File DVDR.cpp, Line 2978

EndDAO: Last written address was 447



13:07:02 #26 CDR -1 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 167

Unspecified Recorder Error

F: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D



13:07:02 #27 TRANSFER -24 File WriterStatus.cpp, Line 167

Could not perform end of Disc-at-once



13:07:02 #28 Phase 38 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 278

Burn process failed at 4x (5,540 KB/s)



13:07:02 #29 Text 0 File AudioCompilationImpl.cpp, Line 867

DRM: DRM burn session terminated.



13:07:02 #30 Text 0 File AudioCompilationImpl.cpp, Line 896

DRM: Closing entire DRM handling. Bye.





Existing drivers:



Registry Keys:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)

Feelgood

Sorry dude, I got to like the 4th line and then entered the Twilight zone......
You sure this isnt taken from the movie 'The Matrix'??..:rolleyes:

onechewy

Success! I tried running the batch with Nero OEM instead of the version 7 we have here and it worked first time.. I don't know why, but it did.. my head was wrecked so happy days indeed.

Thanks for the input

Now I just gotta figure out what to do with my 20+ dud dvd's...

Capt'n Midnight

Now that you have it working ..

did you think to try getting DVD RW's and formatting them InCD or Direct CD ?
IIRC then you can just copy files to them any way you want.