[Space Commander Travis]

Hi,

Can anyone report back their experience using the multiple recorder burn feature in EMC9, assuming that this feature still exists? I've not seen anything about it in the feature lists published so far, since they seem to be concentrating on the new stuff they've added instead.

I have found that although I like the concept of getting the Creator Classic in EMC8 to organise my Norton Ghost image files across multiple discs and then burn the sequence of discs 2 or 3 discs at a time, every now and again something happens to interrupt the sequence, and EMC 8 doesn't seem to be able to recover from an interrupted project, even when I run it a disc at a time.

When this happens, the work to figure out which files have been burned successfully and then to update the project to exclude those files from the second attempt, or the number of duplicate copies that I'd otherwise end up with once the disc set was completed, makes me reconsider whether it is worth using the disc spanning feature at all, never mind trying to burn multiple discs from the sequence at the same time.

But then I remember the work involved in getting the file splits to the correct size to go onto a disc 6 at a time (747Mb each on a Joliet disc) and seperate them across discs manually instead.

Has anyone else noticed this in EMC 8, and are you aware of whether EMC 9 does a better job, either by crashing less often (which if I remember correctly, usually ocurrs when a new disc is inserted), or if it can recover from an interupted project more gracefully?

Travis

[ggrussell]

Space Commander Travis, on Sep 14 2006, 07:38 PM, said:

Can anyone report back their experience using the multiple recorder burn feature in EMC9, assuming that this feature still exists?

Yes, still exsists and works just like it did in V8.

Depending on which app you are using, usually in the burn dialog box you can check more than one recorder. The only app that does NOT allow multiple burns is MyDVD. No idea why it doesn't.

I don't recommend spanned project unless absolutely neccessary. If one disc goes bad, then you have a nice set of coasters. I did that once with Ghost and it took 34 CDs only to find out later - when I NEEDED that back up - there was a bad burn in the middle of the set. I may have tried disc spanning once in EMC8 when it first came out and it worked fine for me.

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[Space Commander Travis]

ggrussell, on Sep 14 2006, 04:07 PM, said:

Yes, still exsists and works just like it did in V8.

I'd been hoping that there might have been some improvements in the new version. Like being able to recover from a multi disc project that didn't get all the way through the burn. Or being less likely to crash in the first place. Do you find that the drive speeds can slow down sometimes on all drives when a new disc is inserted, and this this any better on EMC9?

ggrussell, on Sep 14 2006, 04:07 PM, said:

I don't recommend spanned project unless absolutely neccessary. If one disc goes bad, then you have a nice set of coasters. I did that once with Ghost and it took 34 CDs only to find out later - when I NEEDED that back up - there was a bad burn in the middle of the set. I may have tried disc spanning once in EMC8 when it first came out and it worked fine for me.

I'm not using Ghost to burn the DVDs directly, I get Ghost to create Image files to a spare partition, on an unused disc, and then use EMC8 to burn these to DVD. I also always copy the DVDs back to another partition to check the image file integrity before wiping the original and the test image files, because I find that the burn verify option takes much longer to complete than it normally takes to burn the discs in the first place.

In the last back up set that I ran, a couple of files got lost to a burn flare in the middle of one of the discs, so would normally be able to burn another disc with the corrupted files, as a supliment to the main disc set. This time though, there is enough room for me to add that part of the image to the next set of discs.