If you backup to a CD-R, once it is burned you cant reburn it. Why not backup to a CD-RW and you can use it over and over as your files change. Art Pollock ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Millar" <hmillar@attbi.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Backing Up Files to CD-R > In case some of the backup information lately was confusing to some > (myself included), I just gave it a try and wrote down the steps that > successfully allowed me to Backup to a CD-R and Restore the database to > FO v.10. This is using Windows XP. > > 1. Put a CD-R in the burner > 2. Make a normal backup to a Genealogy folder in My Documents (you can > store this where you wish) > 3. Went to that file using My Computer and highlighted the ZIP file I'd > just backed up, clicked Copy To, clicked on the burner drive and a box > popped up telling me I had files to copy to the D drive. > 4. Went to the D drive (burner) and there's the ZIP file - "Files ready > to be written to the CD" - Data files have to be copied, then written to > the CD in 2 steps. > 5. Clicked CD Writing Tasks, write to the CD, and the CD Writing Wizard > comes up and named the CD "December 30" which then wrote my Backup (ZIP) > file to the CD > 6.Closed the CD tray which had popped open when the burn was complete. > 7.Opened FO and closed the database in the window > 8.Went to the FO File menu and selected Restore > 9. Bing, bang, boom - piece of cake, just like I do all the time with a > floppy back and forth to my laptop to keep the databases identical. > 10 - Note that you can't simply go to the CD and double click on the ZIP > file - you always have to RESTORE a BACKUP from within Family Origins! > > So, thanks to everyone who offered help to the list. If someone doesn't > have the same setup (Win XP and FO v.10) maybe another kind soul will > help with how it works on their machine. Remember, I did it all with XP, > using My Computer to work between my C and D drives. > > If you have separate CD burner software such as Adaptec Easy CD Creator, > that came on my PC, but I can't get it to work<G>. > > Hope you all have a great new year. > > Tim Millar > Cape Cod > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Searchable ARCHIVES - > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=FAMILY-ORIGINS-U SERS >

> -----Original Message----- > From: Arthur Pollock [mailto:art272@comcast.net] > If you backup to a CD-R, once it is burned you cant reburn it. Why not > backup to a CD-RW and you can use it over and over as your files change. > Because CD-R's are dirt cheap [about 10-15¢ after rebates] and you can add them to your AOLdisk frisbee collection, or use them as mirrors to signal airplanes when you get lost with your GPS, or leave them in a geocache, or hang 'em on the fence to scare birds away from the garden . . . 'WAY more fun than having just one CD-RW around! Mike RANSOM

Be careful of backing up on CDRW IF you plan on using it on a different computer. CDRW will sometimes not work on a different computer at all. In my opinion, this makes for a poor choice of backup. J Arthur Pollock wrote: > If you backup to a CD-R, once it is burned you cant reburn it. Why not > backup to a CD-RW and you can use it over and over as your files change. > > Art Pollock > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Millar" <hmillar@attbi.com> > To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:08 PM > Subject: Re: [FO] Backing Up Files to CD-R > > > >>In case some of the backup information lately was confusing to some >>(myself included), I just gave it a try and wrote down the steps that >>successfully allowed me to Backup to a CD-R and Restore the database to >>FO v.10. This is using Windows XP. >> >>1. Put a CD-R in the burner >>2. Make a normal backup to a Genealogy folder in My Documents (you can >>store this where you wish) >>3. Went to that file using My Computer and highlighted the ZIP file I'd >>just backed up, clicked Copy To, clicked on the burner drive and a box >>popped up telling me I had files to copy to the D drive. >>4. Went to the D drive (burner) and there's the ZIP file - "Files ready >>to be written to the CD" - Data files have to be copied, then written to >>the CD in 2 steps. >>5. Clicked CD Writing Tasks, write to the CD, and the CD Writing Wizard >>comes up and named the CD "December 30" which then wrote my Backup (ZIP) >>file to the CD >>6.Closed the CD tray which had popped open when the burn was complete. >>7.Opened FO and closed the database in the window >>8.Went to the FO File menu and selected Restore >>9. Bing, bang, boom - piece of cake, just like I do all the time with a >>floppy back and forth to my laptop to keep the databases identical. >>10 - Note that you can't simply go to the CD and double click on the ZIP >>file - you always have to RESTORE a BACKUP from within Family Origins! >> >>So, thanks to everyone who offered help to the list. If someone doesn't >>have the same setup (Win XP and FO v.10) maybe another kind soul will >>help with how it works on their machine. Remember, I did it all with XP, >>using My Computer to work between my C and D drives. >> >>If you have separate CD burner software such as Adaptec Easy CD Creator, >>that came on my PC, but I can't get it to work<G>. >> >>Hope you all have a great new year. >> >>Tim Millar >>Cape Cod >> >> >> >>==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== >>Searchable ARCHIVES - >> > > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=FAMILY-ORIGINS-U > SERS > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm > basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ > > -- Joyce Ragels Tucson Arizona USA Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain