Disk Spanning

[andrew]

Hey Guys,

Im looking for some help here, im looking for burning software that will automaticly span the data over multiple disks. Ashampoo's back up feature will do it but it requires software to be on the pc to read back the data.

I search and i search and i cant find software that does this I used a peice of software once before that did it perfectly. when you put the first disk in, it ran a small exe file that would guide you to restore the data. i cant for the life of me remember the software.

Please help

[jaclaz]

What do you mean by automaticly?

You mean something like burn to the brim?

http://bttb.sourceforge.net/index.html

Or an archiver/splitter?

Like 7-zip?

Or maybe a backup/restore application capable of saving and restoring data from CD/DVD?

Like this one?

http://hcidesign.com/dvdspan/

Or a cloning/restore app?

http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp

Can you detail what you are trying to do?

jaclaz

[Glenn9999]

Generally to do something like this right, you have to pre-process the data on the drive and then burn it to CD. Any archiving software worth its salt for backup purposes (RAR and ZIP come to mind) offer spanning options where it will create files in sections with the size you desire. The feature was written in the days of floppies, but its flexible enough that you can specify whatever size you want.

After you burn these sections to disk, to restore them, you have the software you use extract the first section, then it will ask for the other sections in turn when done. There was even a self-extract option as I recall.

If that's not what you're looking for, I'm not sure what it is you are looking for...

[andrew]

http://hcidesign.com/dvdspan/ - That is exactly what im looking for!! Thanks.

Edit:

Just tried it there, its shareware, the only limitation i can see is that it wont let you burn over 7 disks. Anything over 5DVDs is better off on another form of media anyways.

Thanks again.

Edited January 31, 2010 by andrew