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| Thread ID: 101138 | 2009-07-02 23:01:00 | DVD formatting software | Sanco (683) | Press F1 |
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| 788266 | 2009-07-02 23:01:00 | Hi there, I hope someone in here can help me with this little humdinger . I regularly backup my important data, and in the past I used Genie Backup Manager to do the job and, although I never had to put it through its paces in restoring the data, I must say I have never had any problems with the program . But then the licence expired and I did not want to cough out the renewal fees . Enters Press F1! In here I read some good reviews of Syncback, and the fact that there is a free version made it all the more attractive, hence I downloaded the program and installed it . I have 2 issues though and I was hoping the more experienced users of this piece of software could shed some light . 1: It needs the DVD-RW to be formatted in UDF; no problem there as I have InCd . On the contrary . Syncback does not recognise DVD formatted with InCd and therefore I had to look for an alternative . Syncback know of this problem and they suggest an alternative - Sonic DLA . It's good, it's free, it works with Syncback, but I need to uninstall my very expensive Nero 6 in order to install it and then I would lose the ability to author cd's and home videos . . . Hence the question: Is there anything else out there that would format DVD's to UDF that would work with Syncback and live happily in the same system as Nero? 2: Syncback took the best part of 3 hours to backup my pictures and home videos, admittedly it is 5 gigs of stuff, but I never had this from Genie which would take roughly 20 mins . Now, I have not played around with the settings . So, maybe there is a way to shave some time off the backup process by customise the settings? I would appreciate any help you could offer . Regards, Sanco |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 788267 | 2009-07-02 23:34:00 | You may be able to just uninstall InCD, leaving Nero intact. The first backup may have been a full backup. Next time you synchronise it should only backup the changes you have made. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 788268 | 2009-07-03 00:36:00 | Maybe search for specific syncback plugins, such as this backup plugin (www.backup4all.com). Also consider the free DriveImage XML (www.runtime.org)(which also has plugins) for backups... | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 788269 | 2009-07-03 02:53:00 | Thank you for your input Rob99, but I have tried that as my first option and the DLA asked me to completely uninstall nero - in fact it did it all by itself... You might be right though that the first backup may take a little longer; I shall see this in future backups. Kahawai chaser, I appreciate your suggestion. I have used drive image in the past however, and wasn't too impressed with the performance, therefore I'd like to give syncback a good go before I surrender... All I'd really need is an alternative way to format dvd's from incd and DLA. Cheers |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 788270 | 2009-07-03 03:29:00 | You shouldn't need to. Syncback does it for you. Insert a blank unformatted cd. You let syncback do it for you. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 788271 | 2009-07-03 07:32:00 | The free version of the program has that facility? Wow. Where do I find it? | Sanco (683) | ||
| 788272 | 2009-07-04 21:07:00 | Hummm, I see that obviously there are no alternatives to DLA, and I have to make a decision to either ditch syncback and try an alternative or live withouth a packet writing software in my pc. Thanks for your help. |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 788273 | 2009-07-04 23:51:00 | Forgot about this thread, sorry! What should happen is that it should utilise windows' burning capibilities to do it. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 788274 | 2009-07-05 00:14:00 | It's all good Blam, what I meant was that obviously I am either the only one having this type of issues with syncback free edition, or else there are not alternatives to InCd from nero or Roxio DLA apps to format dvds . So, you are telling me that windows (XP) has a native formatting tool? Where would I find this? Cheers |
Sanco (683) | ||
| 788275 | 2009-07-05 01:01:00 | No need to find it. As long as you have the IMAPI update installed, which you should, whenever you pop in a blank CD you just hit "Burn to disc" in explorer and you're away! Blam |
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