Dumb question about archiving very large files

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:16 am

Sure if throwing away CD-Rs is practical

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 3:21 am

but cdrs are so cheap...i use them as coasters, and frisbees

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 4:40 am

I like cd-rw's myself. More expensive but nice and reusable.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:31 am

Yeah. Definitely go with some nice CD-R backups. Be sure to make at least two copies of everything, though ('cuz if one CD goes...).

Best thing I can suggest is saving the audio, itself, as one file, and then saving segmented AVIs from VirtualDub (you can save HuffyUV to HuffyUV, set the filesize to no more than 700 MB... it's great).

So yeah. You really don't NEED to go spend money to get some nice cheap archiving done. I do, however, think that eventually you might want to invest in a new hard drive for physical, on-the-disk backups of the files, too.

turboneko · Post by **turboneko** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 11:38 am

Another option is to get WinRAR and compress the files in 700 megs chunks.

It's easier than winzip and you can make the archive self extractable