SimoneBirley

Q: DVD Back Up

I have a Mac in the office which I regulary use to back up my work from the other Macs in the office using Toast to write to DVD,

 

Recently it has become quite unresponsive & I suspect it has something to do with the above.

 

As a user of Macs for many years now (18+) I recall a similar problem in the past where the above process was writing 'invisible' files to the HD & affecting performance.

 

Any clues on a PowerMac running 10.5.8

 

Many Thanks...

 


PowerMac, iOS 5

Posted on Mar 5, 2013 1:45 AM

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  • by Stephenion,

    Stephenion Stephenion Mar 5, 2013 7:54 AM in response to SimoneBirley
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    Mar 5, 2013 7:54 AM in response to SimoneBirley

    How much? Take one or two files, measure the original size on the HDD, then measure the size on the DVD? What happens if you copy them off the DVD to that other Mac's HDD?

     

    Have you tried Burner to burn a data DVD too yet?

  • by SimoneBirley,

    SimoneBirley SimoneBirley Mar 8, 2013 3:35 AM in response to Stephenion
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    Mar 8, 2013 3:35 AM in response to Stephenion

    Have written a disc of only 5Mb with no problem, as it's usually backing up I'm doing they're full DVD's, ie 7/8GB, gets to 'filling chache 28%' then gets stuck, hence thinking its a memory problem, common prolem of old, before HD were GB's in size!

     

    Having copying issues with the Mac concerned too so not been able to burn DVD straight from the Mac either.

     

    Still struggling on & only getting issues withthe Mac after trying to write DVD's

  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles Mar 8, 2013 4:18 PM in response to SimoneBirley
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    Mar 8, 2013 4:18 PM in response to SimoneBirley

    Not all brands of DVD are the same.  Are you using the same brand as before?

     

    How about if you backup from the same machine as the dvd burner is on.  Fast or slow?

     

    How about if you copy the data to the hd from the other machine. fast or slow?  Could be network traffic.

     

     

    Warning. The "life span" from manufacture to manufacture.  Should try reading your oldest DVD to verify that you can still read them. I hard there are special archive DVD for long lasting storage.

  • by Glen Doggett,

    Glen Doggett Glen Doggett Mar 8, 2013 7:09 PM in response to SimoneBirley
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    Mar 8, 2013 7:09 PM in response to SimoneBirley

    SimoneBirley wrote:

     

    Having copying issues with the Mac concerned too so not been able to burn DVD straight from the Mac either.

     

    Still struggling on & only getting issues withthe Mac after trying to write DVD's

    how much free space do you have on the boot drive?  Could it be filling up with temp file space needed to compose the DVD disc image before burning?