How to backup Entire Win 10 Syst to DVD's
I usually backup to an external 4 TB hard drive. Now I want to do a backup to DVD's of my Entire PC system (C,D.E & F drives) or separately, so I can perform an Entire system restore, or restore 1 disk at a time. I have never done this before.
Within the "options" menu, I see there are choices for "Removeable Media". Which choices should I select? Then, how would I burn this backup to a dvd?
I use Acronis True Image 2019. can this be done with this software, and how?
Thanks. Andy


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Thanks Steve, for your reply. Yes, it's coincidental that a friend of mine said the same to me last night about how the size of hard drives and data has changed over the last 10-15 years, since I backed up to dvd using Norton Ghost years ago. He said the same as you, about the amount of dvd's needed and it being more un-reliable than just buying more external hard drives for back up. I guess I will abandon this idea of backing up to dvd's since I'm hearing that it's probably not the best path to take. Thanks again! Andy
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Andy wrote:Thanks Steve, for your reply. Yes, it's coincidental that a friend of mine said the same to me last night about how the size of hard drives and data has changed over the last 10-15 years, since I backed up to dvd using Norton Ghost years ago. He said the same as you, about the amount of dvd's needed and it being more un-reliable than just buying more external hard drives for back up. I guess I will abandon this idea of backing up to dvd's since I'm hearing that it's probably not the best path to take. Thanks again! Andy
Good call! Yeah, grab another cheap external drive or even an "internal" laptop drive and an external sata to usb 3.0 adapter and just make a separate backup to that drive instead of DVD's.
Just checked Amazon and they have a few USB 3.0 x 4Tb external drives for under $100. Should provide lots of room for backups and will be much easier, faster and more reliable to use than a bunch of DVD's (plus you can use it over and over a lot more safely too) or re-purpose it for something else down the road if need be.
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