Backing up large program to disc

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DeerRaven - 26 May 2008 20:10 GMT

Greetings, all--

I'm trying to back up a large program to several discs. In XP this was not a
problem. It prompted you for the next disc. However in Vista (I have the Home
Edition,) I'm told the disc is too small and to either "retry" or "cancel." I
can't believe it doesn't do what XP did...I've already saved the program to a
removable hard drive but I'd like to back it up to disc anyway.

Am I missing something in the control panel? A setting of some kind? Or
doest Vista just NOT do that?

Thanks,

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Adam Albright - 26 May 2008 20:18 GMT

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You can always use a file splitter. Many are free or cheap shareware:

http://www.freewarefiles.com/cat_9_97_File-Splitters.html

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Daddy Tadpole - 26 May 2008 21:08 GMT

Don't want to use possibly ephemeral shareware for backup, unless the
restore function is totally independent of the OS.

The issue,for both home and professional users, is to have reliable backup
of more data than will fit on a DVD, over a timespan that is much longer
than the half-life of any of the OS we have experience of.

I prefer to use (*and maintain*) a collection of cheap (because slightly
obsolete) hard disks with a SATA/ATA - USB cable. I use NTFS; best use a
file system that can currently be read by both Linux and Mac, if such a
thing exists.

Regards

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> http://www.freewarefiles.com/cat_9_97_File-Splitters.html

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Gordon - 26 May 2008 20:27 GMT

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And how are you trying to do this backup in Vista? How did you do this
backup in XP?

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Patrick Keenan - 26 May 2008 21:36 GMT

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Why are you backing up an application? Few applications will work after
being just restored - they have to be reinstalled. from the original
distribution meadia

Restoring applications does not replace the registry keys or the files that
go outside the program folder.

Backing up in this way is of limited value unless you are creating a
bootable image of the entire drive. ntBackup was never very good for
this, and there are vastly better utilities like Acronis TrueImage - and
they do support disk spanning.

Perhaps you could be clearer about what you are trying to do and why.

HTH
-pk

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