I've got a problem. I'm trying to backup massive digital photo collections (several years of family photos) and the collection is large enough that I'd rather use DVD media rather than a bunch of CDRs.
Previously, I lost several months of photos do a hard drive failure. I now have the computer mirror pictures over two drives, plus CDR backups, but I'm wanting to go with DVDs now for extra redundancy. If I make two DVDrs of the entire collection everytime I backup, then even if one backup gets damaged or lost i'm still good.
I'm using commercially purchased NERO. I've tried ISO and the other formats, but and it burns the photos with no error reported, but then I can't get windows (or linux using Knoppix) or anything else to read the disks at all. Buring COPIES of movie disks, i.e., uncopyprotected stuff like my daughter's dance recital works fine, so there's nothing wrong with the burner.
Something is all F'd up in the settings, I think, and it locks up trying to read the disk. It won't read on the DVD drive of any computer, not just the two drives on my computer.
WTH am I doing wrong? Is there any pure "backup" software that's set to record to DVD format (and FREE) that I should be using instead of just NERO?
HELP!