Backing Up GPL to DVD
 

I want to free up some space in my hard drive and have decided to remove
GPL for now. Since GPL has nothing in the registry, I'm trying to just
back-up the GPL folder. With all of the add-ons, etc, my GPL folder is
about 2.8 Gigs.

Therefore, I'd like to back it up to a DVD. I tried simply copying it
over to my DVD Recorder using WindowsXP Drag-and-Drop, but I get a
message saying that "Windows encountered a problem."

Can someone explain the procedure to back-up to a DVD? This should be
pretty simple, but maybe I'm missing a step or two.

Thanks!

Backing Up GPL to DVD
 

your dvd has to be formatted before drag and drop will work.
I wouldn't use the windows program.
Use a third party app such as Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator's "drag to disc"
Nero has their own too.

<BRH> wrote in message . ..
>I want to free up some space in my hard drive and have decided to remove
>GPL for now. Since GPL has nothing in the registry, I'm trying to just
>back-up the GPL folder. With all of the add-ons, etc, my GPL folder is
>about 2.8 Gigs.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to back it up to a DVD. I tried simply copying it
> over to my DVD Recorder using WindowsXP Drag-and-Drop, but I get a message
> saying that "Windows encountered a problem."
>
> Can someone explain the procedure to back-up to a DVD? This should be
> pretty simple, but maybe I'm missing a step or two.
>
> Thanks!

Backing Up GPL to DVD
 

Wizip it, that way there is not one problem with file names, If I were you
then burn that file (wont be much smaller than not zipped) to the DVD.
Trust me.
LuvrSmel enlightened us with:
> your dvd has to be formatted before drag and drop will work.
> I wouldn't use the windows program.
> Use a third party app such as Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator's "drag to
> disc" Nero has their own too.
>
> <BRH> wrote in message
> . ..
>> I want to free up some space in my hard drive and have decided to
>> remove GPL for now. Since GPL has nothing in the registry, I'm
>> trying to just back-up the GPL folder. With all of the add-ons,
>> etc, my GPL folder is about 2.8 Gigs.
>>
>> Therefore, I'd like to back it up to a DVD. I tried simply copying
>> it over to my DVD Recorder using WindowsXP Drag-and-Drop, but I get
>> a message saying that "Windows encountered a problem."
>>
>> Can someone explain the procedure to back-up to a DVD? This should
>> be pretty simple, but maybe I'm missing a step or two.
>>
>> Thanks!

Backing Up GPL to DVD
 

That's exactly what I'm doing and it's working great.
I used a direct copy before and your stuck with read only files when you
copy it back :-(.

"Uwe Schürkamp" > a écrit dans le message de news:
...
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:53:09 -0400, BRH wrote:
>>
>> Can someone explain the procedure to back-up to a DVD? This should be
>> pretty simple, but maybe I'm missing a step or two.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> you might also want to archive your entire gpl folder to hd first, then
> drag and drop the archive to your dvd writer, using zip or winrar). This
> way, file permissions and possible strange filenames will be conserved
> which might not be valid in a Joliet based filesystem.
>
> Cheers, uwe
>
>
> --
> GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Backing Up GPL to DVD
 

LuvrSmel wrote:
> your dvd has to be formatted before drag and drop will work.
> I wouldn't use the windows program.
> Use a third party app such as Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator's "drag to disc"
> Nero has their own too.
>
> <BRH> wrote in message . ..
>
>>I want to free up some space in my hard drive and have decided to remove
>>GPL for now. Since GPL has nothing in the registry, I'm trying to just
>>back-up the GPL folder. With all of the add-ons, etc, my GPL folder is
>>about 2.8 Gigs.
>>
>>Therefore, I'd like to back it up to a DVD. I tried simply copying it
>>over to my DVD Recorder using WindowsXP Drag-and-Drop, but I get a message
>>saying that "Windows encountered a problem."
>>
>>Can someone explain the procedure to back-up to a DVD? This should be
>>pretty simple, but maybe I'm missing a step or two.
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>
>

Thanks for the tip. I used Nero's Back-Up program and worked fine.