Toast 9 - How to Burn DVDs .... ?

[vja4Him]

I just got my new LaCie d2 DVD+RW Drive, and need to figure out how I can burn files more than once on DVD+R disks.

 

I don't want to waste my disks experimenting like I did with my old LaCie SCSI burner ....

[bimicher]

I just got my new LaCie d2 DVD+RW Drive, and need to figure out how I can burn files more than once on DVD+R disks.

 

I don't want to waste my disks experimenting like I did with my old LaCie SCSI burner ....

 

 

You cannot burn more then once on a DVD+R disc, they are write only-once discs. If you want to erase and reuse the DVD you should be using RW discs.

 

Perhaps you should explain a bit more exactly what you want to do.

[vja4Him]

You cannot burn more then once on a DVD+R disc, they are write only-once discs. If you want to erase and reuse the DVD you should be using RW discs.

 

Perhaps you should explain a bit more exactly what you want to do.

 

Ok, this is what I want to do. I want to save some files to a DVD disk, then a few hours laters, or a few days later, I want to save some more files to the same DVD disk. Then a few days later, save more files, and so on, until the disk is full.

 

I used to be able to do that with a CD burner. I was just at Best Buy and the Apple representative told me that you can no longer do that because of software changes.

 

Is that true! If so, that really sucks big time ... !!! So you have to prepare your files that you want to back up in advance, which is not good, because that could take days or even weeks, and in the meantime, if something happens, then I'm screwed and lose everything ... !!!

 

And then when I do back up all of my files, and I want to regularly back up my files, well, that system of backing up is just not going to work, because I would always have to be preparing a folder with enough files to backup to fill up the disk.

 

I hope that somebody is rewriting software so we can back up files to CDs and DVDs like I used to be able to ...

 

So, I guess I should plan on buying a new hard drive every six months or so, and in the meantime, back up to memory cards instead of CDs and DVDs, and use online storage, and print out hard copies of files that can be printed.

 

[tsantee]

You cannot do incremental burning to DVD media with a Mac; at least not with the Mac's file system. There is an application called Retrospect that can do incremental backups to DVD media but it has its own unique file system that requires using Retrospect to read the burned disc.

 

You can burn incrementally to CD media by choosing Write session rather than Write disc in the Toast recorder settings menu. Each session appears as its own icon in the Finder.

 

What works better is to get a 4 GB USB flash drive and copy your files to it in increments. When it gets full you can copy the contents of the flash drive to a DVD disc.

 

Alternatively you can have Toast create a 4 GB temporary partition (Toast Utilities menu). Copy your files incrementally to the temporary partition. When it gets full burn its contents to DVD.

[vja4Him]

You cannot do incremental burning to DVD media with a Mac; at least not with the Mac's file system. There is an application called Retrospect that can do incremental backups to DVD media but it has its own unique file system that requires using Retrospect to read the burned disc.

 

You can burn incrementally to CD media by choosing Write session rather than Write disc in the Toast recorder settings menu. Each session appears as its own icon in the Finder.

 

What works better is to get a 4 GB USB flash drive and copy your files to it in increments. When it gets full you can copy the contents of the flash drive to a DVD disc.

 

Alternatively you can have Toast create a 4 GB temporary partition (Toast Utilities menu). Copy your files incrementally to the temporary partition. When it gets full burn its contents to DVD.

 

I figured out how to burn multiple sessions to a CD, but I don't want to have a separate disk icon for each session. The manual says that I can burn ISO, but for some reason I cannot chooses ISO. Although the ISO mode is in the list of choices.

 

I called LaCie and still waiting for tech support to get back to me with an answer ....

 

 

Thanks for the tip with using 4GB flash drives. I already have a bunch of SDHC memory cards. I'll order a bunch more of the 4GB cards, along with CDRWs.

 

You cannot do incremental burning to DVD media with a Mac; at least not with the Mac's file system. There is an application called Retrospect that can do incremental backups to DVD media but it has its own unique file system that requires using Retrospect to read the burned disc.

 

You can burn incrementally to CD media by choosing Write session rather than Write disc in the Toast recorder settings menu. Each session appears as its own icon in the Finder.

 

What works better is to get a 4 GB USB flash drive and copy your files to it in increments. When it gets full you can copy the contents of the flash drive to a DVD disc.

 

Alternatively you can have Toast create a 4 GB temporary partition (Toast Utilities menu). Copy your files incrementally to the temporary partition. When it gets full burn its contents to DVD.

 

 

 

[theoldarchiver]

I figured out how to burn multiple sessions to a CD, but I don't want to have a separate disk icon for each session. The manual says that I can burn ISO, but for some reason I cannot chooses ISO. Although the ISO mode is in the list of choices.

It is possible to get all sessions in one volume with the Data > ISO 9660 option. But you have to take care of a few more settings to make it work.

 

In the ISO 9660 Settings tab, set Format to 'CDROM-XA'. The XA format is needed to link the previous sessions to the current session. Discs with just the 'CDROM' format are one session only. The XA option is not available for DVD media!

In the ISO 9660 Settings tab, set Naming to 'Allow Macintosh Names' or 'Joliet'. Macintosh Names refers to Mac OS 7/8/9 style names (31 characters, longer names will be altered, "*" and "/" etc. are allowed). Joliet allows for filenames with 64 Unicode characters in length, although I haven't checked the limits of Toast's implementation of this.

In the ISO 9660 Settings tab, check 'Use Apple Extensions' to preserve dual fork (resource fork) files and type/creator meta information. These aren't completely gone in the real world yet, although used rarely nowadays. It doesn't hurt, even if not needed.

 

Before adding new files to a disc, in the ISO 9660 Files tab, use the Session button > Import Session to import the previous content, to be included in the current session, to the file list. Files from previous session(s) will be shown in italics, if I remember correctly.

 

(I used to archive per project this way for many years (Mac OS 7/8/9/10.1) in a graphic design studio, until network archiving on a server hard disk became the norm.)

[vja4Him]

It is possible to get all sessions in one volume with the Data > ISO 9660 option. But you have to take care of a few more settings to make it work.

 

In the ISO 9660 Settings tab, set Format to 'CDROM-XA'. The XA format is needed to link the previous sessions to the current session. Discs with just the 'CDROM' format are one session only. The XA option is not available for DVD media!

In the ISO 9660 Settings tab, set Naming to 'Allow Macintosh Names' or 'Joliet'. Macintosh Names refers to Mac OS 7/8/9 style names (31 characters, longer names will be altered, "*" and "/" etc. are allowed). Joliet allows for filenames with 64 Unicode characters in length, although I haven't checked the limits of Toast's implementation of this.

In the ISO 9660 Settings tab, check 'Use Apple Extensions' to preserve dual fork (resource fork) files and type/creator meta information. These aren't completely gone in the real world yet, although used rarely nowadays. It doesn't hurt, even if not needed.

 

Before adding new files to a disc, in the ISO 9660 Files tab, use the Session button > Import Session to import the previous content, to be included in the current session, to the file list. Files from previous session(s) will be shown in italics, if I remember correctly.

 

(I used to archive per project this way for many years (Mac OS 7/8/9/10.1) in a graphic design studio, until network archiving on a server hard disk became the norm.)

 

I can't choose ISO. When I click on ISO 9660, a message window pops up:

 

Save and Catalog Your Data

 

* Burn up to 50GB on a single Blu-ray Disc

* Schedule automatic backpus to protect photos and other important files

* Automatically catalog your discs and browse them even when they are on the shelf

* Data spanning backs up files across multiple discs for easy retieval on both Mac and Pc

* Integrated file, iLife and Aperture browsing, and Spotlight search for easy access to files

 

The only buttons in this window are:

 

* Learn More

* OK

 

When I click on Learn More, it takes me to the Internet. When I click on OK, the window returns to the main menu.

 

So, why can't I choose ISO?

 

[tsantee]

So, why can't I choose ISO?

Do you have Toast 9 Basic instead of Toast 9 Titanium?

[vja4Him]

Do you have Toast 9 Basic instead of Toast 9 Titanium?

 

Looks like I have Toast Basic 9.0.4. I'm guessing that I will need to pay to upgrade to Toast Titanium in order to use the ISO function?

 

[tsantee]

Looks like I have Toast Basic 9.0.4. I'm guessing that I will need to pay to upgrade to Toast Titanium in order to use the ISO function?

Yes.