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Backup to DVD with Q2007 Larry Waibel 08-19-2006
Posted by Han on August 20, 2006, 7:24 am
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>> Sorry, I meant to add that although Intuit has not quite said it
>> directly yet, I think it's likely that Quicken will not backup
>> directly to DVD at all. I don't have a recordable DVD drive, so I'm
>> not familiar with what Windows can do as far as burning DVD's is
>> concerned, but my understanding is that Q2007 has removed the ability
>> to use third party software for CD's/DVD's: it's Windows, or nothing.
>>
>> There is no reason you can't backup to your hard drive and use any
>> means you like to put that backup on your offline media.
>
>
> Quicken has supported backup to DVD and CD for several years. I have
> no idea why they would want to remove that functionality. This is
> definitely a step backwards. This feature was very useful allowing you
> to make quick backups. Now you have to backup to a folder and then
> copy to the drives.
>
I think that the problem is that CD/DVD interfaces were never really meant
to mimick hard drive functionality. The current workarounds like drag-to-
disc and the older DirectCD are just that, workarounds.

I suggest that you look at Karen's Replicator, freeware that automates all
kinds of backup/copying of files. see:
www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp.
I haven't used it for optical media, because I don't really trust them for
intermediate backups. Final backups may be OK.

--
Best regards
Han
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Posted by Steven on August 20, 2006, 9:30 am
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>
>>> Sorry, I meant to add that although Intuit has not quite said it
>>> directly yet, I think it's likely that Quicken will not backup
>>> directly to DVD at all. I don't have a recordable DVD drive, so I'm
>>> not familiar with what Windows can do as far as burning DVD's is
>>> concerned, but my understanding is that Q2007 has removed the
>>> ability to use third party software for CD's/DVD's: it's Windows, or
>>> nothing.
>>>
>>> There is no reason you can't backup to your hard drive and use any
>>> means you like to put that backup on your offline media.
>>
>>
>> Quicken has supported backup to DVD and CD for several years. I have
>> no idea why they would want to remove that functionality. This is
>> definitely a step backwards. This feature was very useful allowing
>> you to make quick backups. Now you have to backup to a folder and
>> then copy to the drives.
>>
> I think that the problem is that CD/DVD interfaces were never really
> meant to mimick hard drive functionality. The current workarounds
> like drag-to- disc and the older DirectCD are just that, workarounds.
>
> I suggest that you look at Karen's Replicator, freeware that automates
> all kinds of backup/copying of files. see:
> www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp.
> I haven't used it for optical media, because I don't really trust them
> for intermediate backups. Final backups may be OK.
>

save yourselves the headache and just get a 512meg usb sandisk and back
up to it. Been doing it for years and never lost a byte. 512meg can be
had nowadays for about $10

Posted by John Pollard on August 20, 2006, 9:29 am
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>> Sorry, I meant to add that although Intuit has not quite said
>> it directly yet, I think it's likely that Quicken will not
>> backup directly to DVD at all. I don't have a recordable DVD
>> drive, so I'm not familiar with what Windows can do as far as
>> burning DVD's is concerned, but my understanding is that
>> Q2007 has removed the ability to use third party software for
>> CD's/DVD's: it's Windows, or nothing.
>>
>> There is no reason you can't backup to your hard drive and
>> use any means you like to put that backup on your offline
>> media.

> Quicken has supported backup to DVD and CD for several years.
> I have no idea why they would want to remove that
> functionality. This is definitely a step backwards. This
> feature was very useful allowing you to make quick backups.

> Now you have to backup to a folder and then copy to the
> drives.

That's how I have always done it.

Intuit has apparently been swamped with calls from users unable
to understand how to use the backup to CD/DVD capability. I am
certain that cost was a factor in their decision (they said they
contemplated giving a free usb disk to purchasers of Q2007) and
they say their support calls about backup problems are down
measurably for Q2007.



Posted by Gary T on August 19, 2006, 12:27 pm
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Larry Waibel wrote:
> I just upgraded from Q2006 Deluxe to Q2007 Premier. I had been backing up to
> a DVD on a drive controlled by Roxio Drag-to-disc and it worked fine for as
> long as I've been using it (more than a year). Now when I try to backup
> Q2007 to the same location I get a message "CD backup error! The CD drive
> contains a non-writable CD. Please enter a valid disc into Drive G:!" There
> is a valid writeable disk there as there had always been for Q2006. What has
> changed with Q2007 that will no longer allow me to use the DVD-RW drive which
> Roxio exposes as drive G:?
>

Hi Larry,

Just to add to the comments John has made, the Roxio Drag-2-Disc
application uses packet-writing, which is a notoriously unreliable way
to write to CDs or DVDs. I personally have never had a problem with it,
and it appears it has worked well for you for a while now.

I personally have read at least 100 or so messages (probably more) over
at the Roxio support forum where folks have been going along using D2D
just fine and then all of a sudden the disc cannot be read any more, and
all their files are lost. Once corrupted, the files cannot be
retrieved off of the disc.

I would follow John's suggestion of backing up to the hard drive and
then using something else to get the files onto a CD or DVD. That's
what I do now that I've seen the problems that can come from using D2D
or other packet-writing software.

Regards,

Gary

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