Backing up 16gb P2 cards to DVD

[Stas_Tagios]

Looking forward to getting a 16gb card as soon as they're available, but wondering how to back them up to disc.

Till now, I've been shooting to a 4 GB card, which of course easily fits on a single-sided dvd for back-up. I find that making disc images of the p2 card contents during transfer from the card to my mac is a more robust solution for off-loading footage than by just copying the footage and the "lastclip" file to my hard drive.

Obviously, with 16 gb cards, making a disc image will work for transfer from card to computer, but I won't be able to fit a 16 gb disc image on a dvd, single or double-sided. So when copying footage from my hard drive to a back-up dvd, what do I need to do? Just copy half the footage to one dvd, and half to another? And the lastclip file to both?

 

[Abaddon]

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=95095

 

[doccutter]

There's also Toast's disc spanning. I've used it in a pinch, and it's worked Ok.

 

[tmnt]

What disc spanning programs are there for PC users?

 

[THoff]

I've used Acronis TrueImage to backup to DVDs. It has disk spanning, verification, compression etc. I also use it for my normal backups to an internal RAID1 array and external Firewire drives.

 

[tmnt]

Thanks THoff. I'll give them a try.