James P Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 I've been having trouble finding a straight answer on this, so I thought I'd try here.I have a user that needs to make backups of all his files, but his email pst files alone are more than can be stored on a single cd. Is the backup utility in XP Pro capable of spanning a bkf file across multiple CDs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 The facility included in Windows XP will not back up to an optical disk (CD or DVD). see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/s...t_03july14.mspxPersonally, I would not use optical disks of any type for backing up as I have found them unreliable and prone to corruption and/or physical damage. Hard drives are relatively cheap and, by choice I would use an independent program (I use Acronis) and write the data on to separate, dedicated hard drive. I have two machines with internal backup drives and one with an external. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 The whole beauty of Acronis is that a complete mirror image of the hard drive is created, and the hard drive can then be formatted and the mirror image installed all within the hour, depending on size. I keep my mirror image on a USB plug in hard drive. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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