Folder2Iso

[Vortex]

Folder2Iso creates an iso from any kind of folder (with the subfolders)

http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.189

[Gunther]

Erol,

Folder2Iso creates an iso from any kind of folder (with the subfolders)

http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.189

good link. I don't know about such a useful tool. Thank you.  :t

Gunther

[hutch--]

A pen drive is cheaper, faster and more convenient. CD backup is old stuff.

[Magnum]

I think DVD backups are still useful.

Pen drives will fail over time.

Does anyone use Blue Ray burners for backups ?
I was wondering how long it takes to fill it compared to DVDs.

[anunitu]

I have used this tool,it is good for doing a send to for programs into your burn folder. This way you can explore around and fill your burn folder on the fly,then when its is full do a quick ISO file to burn. In my experience an ISO burns much faster than a lot of small files. I am using NERO and one thing I like about it it has InCD that lets you use a rewrite CD just like a floppy. That is you can add stuff as you go along without having to do a full burn. That can be very handy at times.

[Vortex]

Using multiple pen drives to back up the same critical files could be a solution.

[hutch--]

Pen drives only wear out if they are repeatedly rewritten and they have a predictable failure rate. My 1st pen drive, 128 meg still works fine, every other later and bigger ones work fine and they are faster to read and write than a CD / DVD. Only real problem with pen drives is they are hard to write on with a pen as they are so small.

[sinsi]

I think DVD backups are still useful.

Pen drives will fail over time.

Does anyone use Blue Ray burners for backups ?
I was wondering how long it takes to fill it compared to DVDs.

A disc that you burn yourself can be unreadable in 2 days if you leave it in sunlight (the dye layer "bubbles" with the heat).
I know, I left a disc on the parcel shelf in the car. Plus, scratches seem to happen with no effort at all :(
Since Plexor stopped making drives every drive now will shit bricks over a scratch.

Pen drives/flash drives/usb sticks are the way to go, write once and they last, in my case 5 years and counting.

[sinsi]

Hey Vortex, noticed a checkbox saying "hide mkisofs", does that mean it's a front-end for mkisofs?

[Magnum]

Sinsi,

That's interesting.

Do movie disks suffer the same fate as well ?

Andy

[sinsi]

Andy, the problem is the dye layer. An original DVD is usually pressed from a master so the lands and pits are physically impressed.
Apparently DVD-RAM discs are good, they were originally used for archiving I think.

A lot of cheap discs still put the dye layer on the top of the disc, if you scratch the name on top you destroy the disc 

[Vortex]

Hi sinsi,

Folder2iso extracts mkisofs to your temp folder. The checkbox hides the console of mkisofs.