backups

[arethinn]

I feel like I should know this but that my brain is just extra dumb at this moment.

I want to back up my hard drive on DVD but both Nero BackItUp and Microsoft's Backup (rightly) complain that E: has only about 20 MB on it, I assume since the disc is not formatted. Surely there should be some way to handle this without having to DirectCD format the thing. I am just drawing a blank.

Comments

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Um, why would I want to compress my hard drive? It's not that I'm running out of space (~22 out of 80GB), I just want a backup. It would never fit on a single disc and I'm not trying to do that, I want it to split across the 5 discs or so it should take. (Nero I think even says "This backup will take 5 discs" which implies to me that it knows how to split)