TI is the best imaging program I know of. Iomegas Backup Pro is nice too. It will also watch your files and update them for you. Probably better for a removable HD like I got done testing. (REV Drive www.iomega.com Now just have to wait for a price drop.) Thank you, Eric Vogel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hal" <hbrown@xxxxxxxx> To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:26 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: No CTS > It's a DVD burner. I've had a CD burner(s) for years. > > I use the full version of Nero, and DVD XCOPY for movies. TrueImage is the > best I've found for backups. I don't keep years worth of CDs. Don't > really see a reason for that. After a year I pitch anything that is no > longer useful or duplicated. > > What I like about DVD is, all small programs, updates, service packs, > drivers, and whatever else I can think of will go onto one disk with room > to spare. > > > At EST 01:26 PM 4/21/2004, - Cuffy10@xxxxxxx duly noted: > >In a message dated 4/21/04 10:11:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > >hbrown@xxxxxxxx writes: > >I love this thing. I may sleep with it. > > > >You'll get over that as soon as you accumulate 200-300 cd's and want > >something off one of them. > >Get Catfish or Cathy, freebies, to catalog all the items you burn......... > >otherwise you'll be lost. > >What did you get for burner software? If you have Nero you can use it to > >make ISO images without ever burning anything to CD. > >For daily backups it's hard to beat the image system. With a Virtual CD > >Drive loaded you can open the images in the virtual drive and use it like > >a HDD. Lots of ideas to play with so have fun but I really can't recommend > >a CDRom drive as a bedmate !!! > > > > > > > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Age is not a particularly interesting subject. > >Anyone can get old. > >All you have to do is live long enough > >.<http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Groucho_Marx>Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) > > > > > > > > > >__________ NOD32 1.730 (20040421) Information __________ > > > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > ><http://www.nod32.com>http://www.nod32.com > > -- > Hal Brown > http://adwt.com email: hal@xxxxxxxx > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com > Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm > > List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm > > To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: > http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------