# Suggest a backup utility for CDROMS **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-backup-utility-for-cdroms/99768 "2002-03-23T22:59:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-backup-utility-for-cdroms/99768/1 "2002-03-23T22:59:52Z")
Since I’ve got the CD burner, I’d like to put it use for other than making audiocd’s. Can anyone suggest a backup utility for making backup copies of CDROM’s? ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-backup-utility-for-cdroms/99768/2 "2002-03-23T23:15:48Z")
Most of the major CD burning software programs (EZ CD Creator, Nero, etc) have a “Copy CD” function. If you’re looking for something used exclusively to copy CDs (i.e., no mastering capabilites), I’d also suggest Elaborate Bytes’ **CloneCD**. A demo is available [here](http://www.elby.org/english/corp/index.htm) . ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-backup-utility-for-cdroms/99768/3 "2002-03-23T23:50:04Z")
I have backed up with a direct copy (using e-z cd creator) for data directories. and have backed up my entire harddrive using norton ghost - for complete hard drive recovery Ghost is hard to beat but not the best to restore selected files