Skylog backups work with CD/DVD Re-Writable drives (CD±RW/DVD±RW/DVD-RAM drives) if a proper third party packet writing device driver is installed and configured with your drive. The driver should make the CD/DVD behave like a hard disk. Packet writing software can write only to CD/DVDs if the disks are formatted using the Universal Data Format (UDF) file system.

Yes. Writing to CD and DVD discs is supported as long as you have some packet writing software installed on your computer. It usually comes bundled as a part of larger CD / DVD recording software packages and makes your CD or DVD drive act as a standard, transparently write-enabled drive. Packet writing software uses UDF-formatted CD and DVD discs, and allows GRBackPro to write to your CD / DVD drive by treating it like a hard disk or a floppy diskette, using the regular drive letter.

Simply cease to use CD / DVD as a direct target for your backup operations. Set up GRBackPro to run your scheduled events and let it create backups to your hard drive automatically. Every week or month you can copy the backup copies created with GRBackPro to your CD / DVD device manually, with your favorite CD / DVD recording software or Windows XP built-in CD / DVD recording feature. If it's really necessary to run automatic CD / DVD backups, consider buying a good packet-writing tool.

This is an optical drive that will write both DVDs (Digital Versatile Disk, Data or Video) and CDs. The LightScribe DVD+/-RW / CDRW combination drive can read, write and, using the appropriate media, rewrite a variety DVD and CD media, including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD+RW and DVD-RW. DVD+R, DVD-R and CD-R media are compatible with this drive but are a single write media. The DVD+RW, DVD-RW and CD-RW media can be written to multiple times.

Yes, but this sometimes requires some prior tweaking. A special article, covering this topic in detail, is available on a separate page:

Cobian Backup does not contain burning drivers, so you must rely on 3d party drivers. It is NOT recommended to backup directly to a CD. You can use for example, DirectWrite or other tool for this. Be aware that compressing is an operation that does NOT copy the files sequentially, but creates a lot of temporary files, etc, so DO NOT compress to a CD. Copying without compression is not safe either, but if you want SO MUCH to copy directly to the CD, check "Always use ShFileOperation".

Press the Eject key on Apple keyboards, or F12 on non-Apple ones. Apple's symbol for eject is a triangle with a bar below it. An image can be seen here: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-dp3/trash-eject.jpg (Back to top)

Most DVD drives are designed to read CD-ROM's. Check the manufacturer's specifications of your drive to verify that your DVD drive will read CD-ROM's.

Yes, we recover from many types of Backup software, including compressed backup products from: Veritas®, Seagate®, MS Backup®, Retrospect®, etc. Extra fees are required in most cases for backups, please ask us for details.

In order for HER v3 to do backups directly to your CD, the CD must be formatted "as a drive letter". This formatting is called "Drive Letter Access" or "DLA". But you may say, "I can see drive letter 'D' (or whatever) when I use Windows Explorer to view my CD drive". OK, but what you are seeing is the drive letter of the CD DRIVE -- not necessarily the letter OF THE CD itself.

Yes, you need a CD/DVD Writer drive installed on you computer before you can burn CD/DVD with Smart DVD/CD Burner.

You can replace the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive with CD-RW drive in only a few minutes. However, if you want to upgrade the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM to a CD-RW drive, you will need to purchase and install the CD-RW drive yourself. In later releases, the Eureka MD will include a CD-RW drive as one of your purchasing options. It is not recommended that you replace the drive yourself, as it may be difficult to find a replacement drive with the same type of faceplate.

Click the Advanced button in the Rapid Backup Wizard. When the new window opens, go to File>File Burner. Choose Yes if an information window opens asking "No archive file found in the burning stage area, do you wish to continue?". When File burner window opens, click Add files and browse through the “Look in” dropdown box to find your backup set (in our example, this would be located in Desktop>My Backups>Music and Pictures…).

a result, we investigated the available literature and assembled this FAQ to answer the following questions concerning optical media longevity:

The standard Adeptias desks require a specially designed computer case to fit within the specified area. Unique cooling systems have been designed to accommodate the locations of the PCs. However, to support customers who wish to use a brand-name computer, Adeptias has designed the Option Editions which can use certain brand-name, low profile desktop PC and thin clients.

As the Adeptias desks are primarily used in training centres and schools, the majority of applications do not require an optical drive. However, to accommodate those that do, a full range of CD / DVD drives are available which can be included (built into the front of the desk) as an option.

Probably Yes, you can. But I must qualify this statement by saying that while many users of this program, as well as myself, have been able to do this, there are many who couldn't. The reason for this I cannot guess. The program itself has not been designed to write to a CD ( I do not know how to write a CD burning software in Java :-)). Some users have reported that with InCD (comes with Nero Burning Software) running, they are able to backup to a CD or DVD without any problem.

Most external drives you purchase are formatted for PCs. If you are only going to use it with your Mac then you should reformat the drive by using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". If you are gong to use it with your Mac and a PC then use "MS-DOS file system" format. To format or reformat a drive you will have to erase it. So before you erase the drive, copy your files to another drive.

quot;If you have a DVD burner and movies you'd like to make backups of, you may want to get it--while you can."

DVD-ROM drives, being backward compatible with CD-ROM, protect your investment in those discs while opening up the exciting world of DVD to your PC.

Yes. If you import a CD or DVD that is not recognized by the Kaleidescape Movie Guide or Music Guide Services, then you can use the Web Utility to add your own information. For an unrecognized DVD, such as a home movie, you can list the cast and director, assign genres, write a synopsis and upload cover art. For an unrecognized CD, such as a recorded home performance, you can list the artist, release date, and track names, assign genres, write a review, and upload cover art.

Assuming you won't be violating any copyright laws, the lab assistants in J-3002 and J3036 can burn a disk for you.

Only MULTIREAD CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can read CD-RW media. Standard CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives cannot read the low-reflectance media used in CD-RW discs.

All of our computers, Mac and PC, have DVD/CD burners. Our older Mac G5 towers (in room 001) are capable of burning DVD-R's with a rated burn speed of 8x or lower. They will also burn DVD+R's of any speed. All other Mac's and PC's will burn DVD-R's of any speed. We sell blank CD's and DVD's at the Help Desk.

After a successful system recovery with RESCUE-RANGER on OSR 5.0.7, I repeatedly get the following error message when trying to boot from the hard drive.

Not a problem. By compressing your data, Simple Backup can store up to 1.2 gigabytes of information on a single CD, or up to 9.4 gigabytes on a DVD. If your backup is larger than that, Simple Backup will fill up the first disc and then ask you to insert a second one. Simple Backup lets your data span up to 32 discs.

If you are doing it for the first time, select My E-mail Messages from the task list, click the Wizard button on the toolbar and select Burn onto DVD or CD in Backup Wizard, click Next to Finish. Then, click the Backup button to perform the backup. Only the last step is required to perform the same backup again, or you may use the scheduler to perform backup automatically.

Yes, TurboBackup requires that you perform backup to CD/DVD from a user account that has Administrator Privilege. You can grant your account Administrator Privilege using Windows User Account management feature. If it is important for you to perform backup to CD/DVD from user accounts without Administrator Privilege, you may contact support@filestream.com for the All Users Rights applet.

Make sure that you have the latest updates for your operating system from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Check to see that your DVD burner is set as Master on your Secondary IDE Channel, not as Slave. This means that the jumpers on the back of the drive must be set as master, and also that the drive must be on the end of the IDE cable. Make sure your drive's properties has DMA turned off. Go to Windows Help and type DMA in the search box for more information.