I’ve been using Retrospect for backups for several years. They have a feature whereby after a backup, one can create a Disaster Recovery CD in case of a total crash. This becomes a bootable CD.
To create it, you make an .iso file of the backup, then burn it to a CD. The size of these files has always been around 600 MB, which fits on a CD-R or CD-RW disk.
Today I showed a friend how to use Retrospect for backups, and when tried to burn the disk, it told me it did not have enough room. So, took a look at the .iso file, and lo and behold, it was a humungeous 1,000,008,954. No wonder it would not fit on the disk.
His computer is using XP Home and nothing else is much different than my computers. I tried it on his laptop and it worked OK, but a second try on the desktop resulted in the same 1 gig .iso file.
Anybody know why this is or what’s going on here?