# Automatic CD Backups?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automatic-cd-backups/123400>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automatic-cd-backups/123400 "2002-08-11T14:47:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automatic-cd-backups/123400/1 "2002-08-11T14:47:11Z")

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I recently replaced my Zip drive with a CD burner for backing up my documents.

While it works well (though considerably slower), one of the features that I loved about the Zip drive was the automatic backup features.

Is anyone aware of a good free or inexpensive utility available to automate?

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**Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automatic-cd-backups/123400/2 "2002-08-11T16:29:04Z")

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I believe Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 has a backup feature, but it’s not cheap.

The Windows 2000 Backup documentation makes it sound like it will let you back up to CD-Rs, but it won’t. I don’t know if this has changed in XP.

I wanted to do all my backups to CD-RW, but I eventually gave up on the idea and got a 30 GB hard drive with a removable rack instead. They’re relatively cheap and the backups run much faster.

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**Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automatic-cd-backups/123400/3 "2002-08-11T16:41:45Z")

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I do have the Roxio Easy CD Creator 5, but unfortunately it doesn’t offer automatic backups.

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**Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/automatic-cd-backups/123400/4 "2002-08-11T18:17:04Z")

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You might want to poke around the [forums](http://boards.support.roxio.com/) at the Roxio website. Some posts there indicate that there is a way to do it with Take Two and Windows Scheduler.