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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Back-up puzzle
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 05:06:17 -0500
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At 11:17 PM 9/4/03 -0500, Paul E. Lawrence wrote:
>You can on my drive...in fact the free CD that came with the system was a
>CD-R, I initially started out using it for tmg backkups, this was Dec
>2001-Jan 2002 but switched to the CD-RW discs....I can't remember for sure
>whether I was backing up directly to the disc or backing up to hard drive
>and then drag and dropping....tried to test but the one CD-R disc I have
>appears to be damage
>
>> The geekish distinction is between UDF 1.5 and ISO 9660 formats.
>>
>>I am *not* talking about backing up first to a hard drive, and then
>>dragging and dropping the resulting file to a CD. That is a different
>>situation entirely, and its success will depend on the hardware and
>>software that one has installed.
>
>Paul E. Lawrence

Hi, Paul:

Well, the issue I was addressing was specifically the ability of TMG to
back up "directly" to a CD-R disc. Did you ever get a successful *restore*
from that free blank CD? If so, was it on the same drive? Some of the help
files for Roxio DirectCD ver. 5.10 suggest that a CD-R which is written to
using DirectCD (drag and drop) will remain "open" and will be readable only
on a CD-RW drive which is UDF 1.5 compliant (I think all the newer ones
are). Translation: if your PC goes up in smoke, you may not be able to
restore your backups to a different PC, depending on that PC's CD drive.

Hint: a backup strategy that does not include periodic successful
*restores* is just wishful thinking.

BTW, if your original backup CD-R "appears to be damaged", and the damage
is not physically visible, try using your burning software (typically Roxio
or Nero) to "close" the CD. Then retry it. Just a thought.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/

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