Automaticaly Backing up to CR-RW

[lfgasnrg]

I'm sure this has been asked and discussed but I did a search with little success so I hope someone can help me.

I have XP-Pro on a Gateway Solo with a CR-RW. I would like to set it up or get a program that I can set up to back-up files to a CD-RW automatically during the night. Any information would be helpful.

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[Jmtyra]

um........yea.........dang. Little fuzzy on the details at the moment.

Quick outline:

1) Have to format the CD-RW blank for r/w on the fly using roxio (or whatever 3rd party prog u wanna use)

2) Setup the backup program (XP comes with one-can schedule) to backup whatever whenever at the intervals you want.

3) When asked where you wanna save the data in the backup prog select the drive that the CD-RW is in. Need to leave the CD-RW in there all the time--at least make sure its in of course when the time comes etc....

Any CD-RW will do, just not CD-R

Quick search on google.com will reveal how to use the backup prog built into XP-also has a help file but its pretty easy to use.

Roxio is the only prog that I know of that will format a CD-RW so that you can r/w 'on the fly' instead of reformatting the whole thing---there are others out there but I just don't do CD-RWs so....

Hope this helps, thanks!

 

[Jmtyra]

3rd party progs that do--listed above

http://www.windows-backup-software.com/faq.php

http://www.handybackup.com/

http://download.com.com/3000-2242-10176136.html?tag=new

http://www.ntibackupnow.com/default.asp