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December 2, 2012 at 4:45 pm

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General Lighting

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Any suggestions for the best (and preferably free?) software for this?

I have a load of music (full rate WAV files) I want to back up – they are already copied to the local drive here, a SSD drive and the NAS anyway but I want another backup “just in case”.

Copying the files manually to the DVDs is a pain because I would have to keep track of what has and hasn’t been backed up each time I fill up a disk (similarly with flashdrives).

I’ve looked at Microsoft backup and restore but it seems to want to backup the entire C drive which is not what I want.
December 2, 2012 at 4:50 pm

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I’d get winrar and put everything you want into it and set it to split the .rar files at however many MB’s your DVDSs can hold. You’ll not be able to pull out individual files from it untill you recompile the .rars together, but if it’s just for a back up it might be an option.
December 2, 2012 at 4:56 pm

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Deezl

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^ That will also compress them which could be handy too. I’ll look into this for you now though, GL
December 2, 2012 at 6:53 pm

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Mezz

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How many GBs in total ?

You can get a 1TB USB drive from Maplins for about £60, far quicker & easier to just buy one of those and copy all the files in one go with no compression, also you get to take it to mates houses with and have it usable just by plugging in
December 2, 2012 at 7:16 pm

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About 16.8 GB at the moment but more being added each time I buy some tunes. I was a bit sceptical about the robustness or portable hard drives though in reality it doesn’t seem so bad, as I could back them up to another NAS either at the radio station or at work.
December 2, 2012 at 7:18 pm

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Deezl

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My portable drive has taken a beating and still works fine. As long as you don’t go crazy with it they’re actually relatively strong
December 2, 2012 at 7:30 pm

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might give that a try. For my day job I have to design resillient systems for healthcare organisations so I tend not to take chances. Even at home all I would need is a couple of solar panels and a few leisure batteries and I could keep the tunes going even if the electric is out across half my estate (though to be fair to Sir Li Ka Shing, the power is way more reliable since his company bought the electric network)
December 2, 2012 at 7:41 pm

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Deezl

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Hmm well i’m sure there are cases or gloves of some description to put them in to offer them a little bit more protection, but really mine has been dropped a few times (Once from about 4 foot onto concrete) and is still working as good as. Whom is that may i ask?
December 2, 2012 at 8:01 pm

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Li Ka-shing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He is Chinese (well from Hong Kong), the French sold him all the electric cables round here so they could have money to build more nuclear power stations. its a bit like what pikeys used to do until security was increased here, except the French left the cables in the ground :laugh_at:
December 2, 2012 at 8:03 pm

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Mezz

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@Deezl 509546 wrote:

My portable drive has taken a beating and still works fine. As long as you don’t go crazy with it they’re actually relatively strong

Yeah mines several years old, been dropped countless times with no problems, they seem pretty resilient
December 2, 2012 at 8:06 pm

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Don’t bother with dvds. Just use a hard disk you can store somewhere safe.
December 3, 2012 at 10:26 am

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General Lighting

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thanks – will get hold of one of the portable drives – I was considering getting one anyway for transferring audio back and forth from the radio station….
December 3, 2012 at 11:22 am

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I have a crate full of dvd back ups of partyvibe I’ve never used.
December 3, 2012 at 12:33 pm

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Winston Smith

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I would use a raid array with HDDs + the cloud. I would avoid compression technology like zip files as they can corrupt. I backup to 2 different HDDs and 2 different cloud services.
December 5, 2012 at 12:14 pm

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Pat McDonald

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For me it would depend how badly I needed to keep the data.

DVDs have one huge advantage – the files they contain cannot be deleted by malware. Unlike other storage solutions.

Having said that, it’s a lot of screwing around making backup DVDs, and they are obsolete pretty much the instant you burn them BUT – if you absolutely must have that data available at some point in the future, they are more secure than any other method.

Even a scratched DVD can be repolished and the data read off. It really does come down to how sure you want to be about storing data.
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