SOFTWARE FOR BURNING MULIPLE DISKS AT THE SAME TIME

glomar

Hi there all

Quick question

I currently have 3 DVD burners on my system and a hell of a lot of data to burn .
I am currently using nero 6 to burn disks .
When I use nero burning rom I get the option to burn to multiple drives however I do not get the option to verify the media this option is only availible in nero express however this does not support burning to multiple disks at the same time .

Issue is I have an enormous amount of data to backup to disk due to a couple of predictive failures that are going on .When I backup I want to make sure the backup is accurate hence the verify option being required .

I have also looked adshampoo and roxio and these options are not present when burning multiple disks . Any body got any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance

Fysh

TBH if you have that much data to back up in order to avoid crashes on existing discs, I'd have thought you'd be better off buying another drive (either an internal if you've got the space and connectivity, or an external) and using that for backups instead of a bunch of comparatively short-lifespan optical discs.

glomar

Thanks for the reply .. however working in IT tells me one thing do not trust hard drives ... always have a backup to tape or something similiar

Fysh

glomar wrote: »

Thanks for the reply .. however working in IT tells me one thing do not trust hard drives ... always have a backup to tape or something similiar

Ah, ok, if this is for insuring yourself against disk failure I can see why optical media would make more sense. You could try ImgBurn - it supports multiple burners and some sort of queing system. I haven't used it on a multi-burner machine so I don't know if it'll do what you need it to do, but it's worth trying.

BoB_BoT

Just a thought, why not look at a blu-ray burner, 25-50gb storage per disk. I know it more expensive that dvd, but possibly a better solution in the long term.

Capt'n Midnight

glomar wrote: »

Thanks for the reply .. however working in IT tells me one thing do not trust hard drives ... always have a backup to tape or something similiar

Tape is good when it works

If there are any problems at all then Tape is an abomination. Drives and software are too unreliable, (the whole upgrade drive firmware) there are too many points of failure. And even when working the cost of a decent tape drive and full set of tapes costs more than hard drives.

hard drives backup can be relatively fast if you overwrite newer files only

mirroring drives and then off lining them means you have almost zero restore time, in other cases they wipe optical and tape for access times , you can do bare metal recovery from tape but it's usually quicker to just restore the system partition and then run a normal tape restore because you are now using faster drivers.

you can read data off a dropped drive, it's expensive but is is possible, now try the same trick off a 10 year old tape when working drives are scarce and no one has that particular revision of the backup software ( there are some beautiful gotcha's when trying to restore old tapes , in comparison last week I had a P4 booting up from a 24 year old hard drive )

Optical media is very susceptable to scratches, so burn two copies and learn how to use ddrescue to recover missing sectors from the other copy of the disk


TBH if the data set can be stored on a few DVD's then look at using hard drives, choose ones that have been in use for a month so you are past the early failures, treat them like eggs (you have to do that with tape anyway)