Backup to DVD

Handy Backup is your most devoted assistant when it comes to performing quality DVD backups. It is specifically designed to help you resolve the following issues: what to back up to DVD, when to back up to DVD, and how to back up to DVD. In its work, Handy Backup employs the most advanced backup tools including data compression and encryption, file filters based on file masks and extensions, powerful backup scheduler and so on. For more details, refer to the feature page of our data backup software.

Why back up to DVD?

When you select the storage medium for doing backup of critical data, you should pay specific attention to the storage capacity and the safety of the selected backup storage medium.

DVD storage

DVD is a reliable mass storage medium with a single disk capacity reaching 9 GB (double layer DVD). You will probably rip the most benefit from DVD backup, if you are planning to back up videos, games, music files, images, programs and applications, mail clients, program settings etc. However, if your backup set exceeds 50 GB, or an overall amount of 10 disks, other formats of mass storage such as HD-DVD and Blu-ray may be considered a more viable option.

Security of DVD backup

As a light weight optical disk, DVD is one of the preferred backup storage media due to the fact that it can be easily transferred from one location to another and stored at a large distance from the original data thus ensuring greater security.

Preparing DVD backup

To prepare DVD backup, make sure your computer is equipped with a DVD-R drive. Handy Backup supports all popular types of DVD drives. As for the disks, it is recommended to use brand new DVDs or DVD-RWs of such manufacturers as Verbatim, or Taiyo Yuden, as they supply high quality DVDs most suitable for backup. Using quality disks ensures quality writing, and, more importantly, quality restoration.

Recording backup to DVD with Handy Backup

Handy Backup does the backup to DVD with the use of the following features:

Built-in DVD burning tool
With Handy Backup, you can record backups to DVD without applying any third party software which immensely simplifies the task of backup.
Easy creation of DVD backup task
To record the data to a DVD, you only need to add data to the backup set, specify DVD as the backup destination and insert a blank DVD in the DVD drive.
The Erase disk automatically option
If you use a full DVD, you can ask the program to automatically erase disks before writing.
Spanning of data while recording backup to DVD

This means that the user doesn’t have to manually split the data to record them to several DVDs. Instead, the program will automatically divide the data set into equal parts considering the storage capacity of the DVDs used, and record these data to several DVDs one by one, not disturbing the file consistency and prompting the user to insert the next DVD when the current disk is full.

Restoring data from DVD with Handy Backup

To restore the backup data from a DVD, you can create a separate restoration task or backup from DVD automatically with just one click!

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