Create A CD RW Backup Of Your Important Data!

Did you know that with a cd backup software you can now make security backup to your own CD-ROM burner of computer data? You can do this with the data you are working on a regular basis. Most personal computers today are equipped with a CD-ROM or DVD reader.
Some of them also work as CD-ROM recorders or burners which you can use to copy and store files. Most people use CD-ROM burners only to copy music files and computer software.

But, CD-ROM devices can also be used to for CD R or CD RW backup of your documents and other data as your main backup device. The prices for CD-ROM discs are very low and it is also cheap to purchase and install CD-R or CD-RW burners.

On a CD-ROM you can store about 650 MB of raw uncompressed data.
However you can only write to a CD if you have a CD burner which has to be a CD R or a CD RW storage device. A simple CD-ROM reader is not enough as this device can only be used for reading.

What is the difference between device used for CD-R and CD-RW backup and what technology are behind these devices?

With a CD-R you can only write on the same CD once. You are not able with a CD-R to erase data or overwrite it with new data.

With a CD-RW recorder you can write on the same CD-RW disc several times.
This makes it a perfect device to use if you make regular backup on to the same CD-ROM disc. Then you just keep it stationed inside the CD burner.

One important point is that depending on which type of CD-ROM system recorder you use you must use the right type of CD-ROM disc adapted to the recorder. However a CD-RW recorder can also write to a CD-R disk. You have three types of CD-ROM discs.

• CD-ROM which can only be read.
• CD-R which can be written to only once.
• CD-RW which can be written to multiple times.

Most DVD player and reader can also use the CD-ROM format. But then they must have two types of lasers, each with different wavelengths. One laser for CD and another for DVD.
Unlike hard disks which use magnetic storage, CD work with laser light which read or write optical reflections on the CD-ROM discs.

On a CD burner you will see a three number times X like (6X/4X/24X).
These indicates the rotating speed with which the recorder or player use to write a CD-R disc, the speed it reads on a CD-RW disc and the speed it reads the CD. The number of times X is based on the first versions of CD-ROM which could only read 150 kB of data per seconds.

To backup with a CD recorders is a convenient way to make data backups. Especially if you have no easy access to another backup media. Maybe you are working with a single computer which is not connected to server on network. Most home users are in this situation.

The problem, have been to be able to find a good backup product which streamlines and makes this backup process easy to do.

With WinBackup, which is a cheap and easy to use backup software, backup via a CD burner to a CD disc is a simple.

The software uses compression techniques which will in most cases compress down the data to half of its former size. This means, that you will be able to store up to about 1.3 GB data backup on a single CD-R or CD-RW disc.

This compression is made on the fly during the backup process, which makes the backup time short. The backup time is primarily based on the CD-R or CD-RW writing speed. This backup software is built with a recognizable standard Windows interface which simplifies backup operation for the user.

Additionally, with this interface you can identify and mark important data files and folders including the Outlook email database file and folders like MyDocument for backup.
If you have a CD-RW player you can keep a CD backup disc in the drive and do regular a repeated backup at interval you set so that you always have backup of your latest data.

You can of course use this software also to make backup over a network to your server or even make backup to a remote location over the internet.
For example, you can encrypt data with this backup software and copy it via a FTP program to your own web site. Then you have your data stored both a secure and remote location using FTP, apart from your stored cd rw data.