08-07-2006, 03:10 PM
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How to backup 10GB of images?
I have 10GB of family pictures etc i want to burn them to CD's but whats a easy way to do it? Splitting them over a few CDS is hard when you have a few thousands pics.
If i could put them in like a .iso file and split that up into parts that will fit on CDs.
I already have them on hard drives as back up. I have a fireproof safe do you think CDs would melt if inside it? I guess theres really know way to know that.
Last edited by WasMike235; 08-07-2006 at 03:15 PM.
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08-07-2006, 03:39 PM
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Buy a DVD burner...and burn them onto 2 discs 
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08-07-2006, 03:43 PM
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If you're worried about them melting back them up in another location too.
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08-07-2006, 03:51 PM
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You could create a .rar archive with winrar and have it split it into 700 meg files. That would take long with 10 gigs though.
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08-07-2006, 03:52 PM
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You could set up a series of subfolders (e.g. 01 to 20) and copy and paste big handsfull of files into those folders so that each one is safely less than 700 MB. When that is done, the CD burning task is greatly simplified. You just copy a subfolder to a CD-R.
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08-07-2006, 03:58 PM
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Or buy a 30 gig ipod. That would make it easier to view the images.
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08-07-2006, 04:02 PM
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I'd definitely buy a DVD burner and go from there. You can buy some very cheap ones for about $50 - $60. Its worth the money, then spending a bit of time burning to CDs.. IMHO...
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08-07-2006, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by WasMike235
I have 10GB of family pictures etc...
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That's quite a porn collection. 
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08-07-2006, 04:38 PM
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08-07-2006, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Amdac
That's quite a porn collection. |
My porn collection is on a 750GB hard drive!! I might have to buy another 750GB drive soon the other is getting full. 
but seriously i'll buy a DVD burner. I have pics from years ago when there was not even a 1 megapixel camera out.
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08-07-2006, 04:59 PM
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In addition to buying a DVD burner, I would buy a DVD-DL (dual layer). The DVD-DL's hold 8.5GB. They are a bit costly though. Then, like other people said. You could compress them with win-rar, and hope you got it below 8.5, and voila! It should fit.
But it would be cheaper to just burn it to 2 dvds. Or perhaps even more than that, do it dvd by year?
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08-07-2006, 05:20 PM
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You could buy a one touch external backup drive. I've seen them at the Apple store.
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08-07-2006, 06:06 PM
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08-08-2006, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by innovation
Buy a cheap hard drive.
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You guys can't read can you? I already have them backed up on hard drives.
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08-08-2006, 10:46 AM
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buy a dvd burner, create 10x1GB archives using winrar and create parity files for each 1GB rar file using quickpar.
store the par files on different dvds from the rar files.
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