[Discussion] Backup of a drive to CD.

[Douglas Clark]

On Sat, 19 May 2007 14:09:35 -0500 (CDT), Ira N. Saxe wrote:

>I have RJS under eCS and need an instruction book. I open RJS and 
select a target CD drive letter, other than its eCS designatio, but don't 
understand why I don't use its eCS letter designation.  Then, I select the 
defaults for other not understood parameters.  Then, I can't find a way to 
tell it what to copy.
>After all that works, I'll worry about all the reliability areas promped by 
my last request for help.

Ira,

Short instructions:

1) open RSJ icon (on your desktop)
2) insert blank CDR into your CDR
3) double click on the CD Writer Control icon in the RSJ folder.
4) Select/change the drive letter you want assigned to the new blank 
CDR  - then click on the Attach Now button

RSJ will then create a drive object assigned the letter you 
selected/changed in step 4. You can use any OS/2 program (or Win-OS2 
program or ... well you get the idea) to copy data into the CDR by 
accessing it. For example you can open the Drives folder and copy data 
onto the CDR by dragging and dropping.

5) When you get done putting data on the CDR, click on the Finalize 
button in the CD Writer Control object (the Attach Now button changes 
to Finalize after the CDR is attached.)

When the CDR is "finalized" the CDR drawer will extend and the drive 
object which represented the CDR will disappear.

The above instruction assume you have a CD drive and a CDR drive. If 
you only have a CDR drive the instruction vary slightly, but the concepts 
are the same.

I like RSJ. It is an excellent product and works very well. I have never had 
a problem with RSJ - although I did have a CDR drive go bad once and it 
took me awhile to realize it was the drive and not RSJ.

As for backup products - you could try BackAgain. That will back up to 
tape, floppy, hard drive and removable drive. It should work just fine with 
RSJ and CDR.
Thanks

Douglas Clark