Free Good Dvd Data Spanning Software ?

[vindictive666]

hi all

as the title says

i use nero essentials and am pretty sure it cant span data dvd's

i have nothing else, have acronis dont really want to use that,

any ideas :) have about 15gb to span

regards john

[troypiggo]

I have to ask - unless you have one 15GB file, why can't you just split your files over several disks?

Second thought - if you do have a huge single 15GB file, why not use a file splitter program to split it into smaller ones that do fit on a DVD each.

I use CDBurnerXP, but don't think it can span multiple disks. http://cdburnerxp.se/

[vindictive666]

nah i dont want to split them because they have been compressed by Steam they are game backups i was sure my old version of nero used to do it no longer have a copy

i allso have cdburnerxp doesnt do it iether :)


might have to disk by disk :(

regards john

[troypiggo]

I have Steam/HL2/CS:Source etc too. I haven't used the Steam backup facility. You can just save the .gcf files individually to save having to re-download if you reinstall. Not sure about "save game" files, but imagine if you can find them in there they'll be pretty small and fit easily in there somewhere.

[AdrianF]

Doesnt Nero span files if you create an ISO file?

Adrian

[vindictive666]

not sure ?

[Scooter]

Do like troypiggo suggested - splint them over several disks. Use http://www.win-rar.com/ to add your folder/s to an archive and just set the size of the volumes to whatever you like (it has default settings to span DVD's but I would make them smaller like 1G or less).

Too easy :D

[Scooter]

Oh and if it wasn't self evident once you have your multivolume archive using winrar - i.e.

backup.rar (1G)
backup.r00 (1G)
backup.r01 (1G)...etc.

You just burn them across your DVD's as a normal data DVD's. Ever want to restore them just copy them back from DVD to HDD and exrtact..

[troypiggo]

Yeah, some filesystems spit the dummy if a single file size is over 1GB.

[Sentinel]

You could also try HJ Split for splitting large files.

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/

There are so many different platform options with this program.