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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:18:38 -0500, "Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov> wrote:

>
>"olfart" <olfart65@excite.com> wrote in message
>news:bs44n5$98vag$1@ID-34582.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>
>> "Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:bs30sr$91juv$1@ID-151056.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> > In article <3FE46E79.20B51517@teleport.com>,
>> > ms<msa@nospa.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > >In the CDRW format, have you used Imation disks and results? I have
>> had
>> > >good results with Imation CDR disks, have but not tried yet same in
>> > >rewritable format.
>> >
>> > I've been using Imation CD_RW for routine daily backup for a couple
>> of
>> > years without problems.  One disk lasts about 6 months to a year
>> > before it's full, so only gets written about 20 to 50 times before
>> > it's "retired" as I have one for each day of the week (and always
>> copy
>> > "yesterday" and "today" [ using good old XCOPY /s/d  ;-) ] so I end
>> up
>> > with two copies of everything).  Also been using those Imation
>> CD_RWs
>> > for my "Monthly" backups.  So that's now another couple of dozen.
>> >
>> > All that said, I've recently switched to Imation CDRs formatted for
>> > "drag and drop" etc. from Windows/DOS stuff as someone in one of the
>> > cdrom newsgroups must have convinced me that was a more reliable way
>> > to go.  8-)  The main problem with this is that these CDRs can't be
>> > read on other machines that don't have appropriate software
>> installed
>> > whereas the CD_RWs can be.
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers, Phred.
>> >
>>
>> You can download UDF Reader from the Roxio site - put it on a floppy
>> and install it on the other machines
>>
>>
>What I do is to just copy UDF Reader (it's a small file) right onto the
>CD..just in case.
>So far, it works fine.  Also, how you close it makes a difference.  You
>must make sure
>you close it to be read on ANY CD Rom reader rather than only those with
>UDF.  But
>I've found the above mention tactic to work fine.  BTW, not all CD-RW's
>are readable
>on ALL machines.  They all have their quirks.  But the method used to
>close it matters.
>
>Helen

OK, this is what I do...

I do not use DirectCD or InCD as I want to have as little baggage to
support reading the CD as possible.  I wrote a batch file and use a
freeware program called CreateCD which is a command line utility to
burn CDs.  The catch is that it runs only under Windows XP and it uses
Windows XP built-in CD burning capability.  I erase the entire disk
each time and back up my data to it.  The batch file does other things
like attempting to make data backups to/from another system on my home
network (so I have multiple copies of the backups stored
independently).  I use a re-writable CD and have been using this batch
file for several months (since May) without a problem.  The batch runs
every day.  I'm estimating that a single CD-RW will last roughly 18
months this way.  Doing it this way allows pretty much any other CD
reader to read the CD with no additional software installed.

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/CreateCD.htm



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