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backup software?

hi what is the best software to use for backup a whole hdd or partition onto dvd discs? like: select the whole drive with everything on it, and then the software would ask for the disks until its finished backing up? i looked at the softwares guys, this cobian backup looks very good and professional, but there is no option to save to dvd disk. of course i could do manually but that would be a real pain. i have a whole partition with 90GBs of music, like 200 folders and god knows how many files (from 1mb to 800mb, mostly mp3, but avi and mpeg as well) so the best would be some kind of option after the files have been selected: source dvd, file size 4.4gb or 8gb... with compression or without does not matter. 1 file or exact mirror of all dir.s and files also no matter....

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1. I recommend Cobian Backup 8, it's a free and easy to use program to automate the back up process. Cobian Backup 8 (code name Blackmoon) is a free, open-source software which I use to automate the process of backing up. It can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer, external hard drive or other computer in your network.
2. here is a link to a site with on of the best backup software. http://www.freecomputeradvice.org/data-backup.html
3. Backing up to cd/dvd is an absolute nightmare. The problem is that the process of writing to this medium relies on keeping a memory/disk buffer full so that data can be continually written to the cd/dvd. If anything causes an interruption the whole disk is most likely unusable. Whats more unreliable is that it wont always tell you there has been a problem. There is nothing worse than loading a backup because you need to and finding there is nothing there to restore. Get yourself an external USB hard disk and then use Windows XP's free ntbackup.exe utility. Its there in the menu somewhere when you logon as a admin user. In system utilities I think. I use it all the time and its perfectly usable (and free).
4. Be aware when you back up your drives it does not backup any programes you have on their only the system files are backed up. Why is this well programes come from a source disc cd-rom and when you install from this it just installes from the exe (excutable) file but it doesn't install the exe file so if you backup your drive then put it on to a different drive then tried to run any application on that drive it wouldn't work it will only work on the original drive conected to the pc it was installed on mate.
5. Here is a review of best online software, may help you. http://review-pedia.com/index.php/Backup-Tools/Online-Backup-Tools-Review.html