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Online Manual of Genie Backup Manager Home Edition
The CD/DVD Settings page of the Global
Preferences window (accessible from the Tools
menu, Global Preferences menu item) contains
options pertaining to writing to optical media.
Select this option if you want to use filenames that contain up to 64
characters in length, including spaces. This is the default option and
is used to record most CDs/DVDs. Joliet also records the associated DOS-standard
name (8+3 characters) for each file so that the disk may be read on DOS
systems or earlier versions of Windows.
Juliet must be used if you want to use file names that contain up to
64 characters in length, including spaces. Joliet also records the associated
DOS-standard name (8+3 characters) for each file so that the CD may be
read on DOS systems or earlier versions of Windows.
ISO9660 is used if you want to be able to read the CD on different platforms
including DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Windows and UNIX. Files and directories
recorded to CD based on the ISO 9660 standard must meet the following
(8+3) requirements:
A file name may not contain more than eight alphanumeric
characters and the underscore symbol [_].
A file name extension may not contain more than
three alphanumeric characters.
A directory name may not contain more than eight
alphanumeric characters and the underscore symbol [_].
Although using ISO is supported in GBM it is strongly recommended that
the user uses Joliet to avoid running into file/folder naming compatibility
problems. Otherwise, the user must manually make sure that the naming
convention of all selected files and folders are compatible with the ISO9660
standard.
This option increases the reliability of backup to CD media by creating
a temporary file on the hard disc that is then written at once to disc.
Caching, however, means that GBM will first copy the data to a temporary
local drive and then onto the CD, which adds a few minutes to the total
running time for each disc.
Caching is not supported on DVD.
If GBM doesn't detect enough space to perform
caching, data will be copied directly to the CD.
Close the CD/DVD media so that further writing to it is not possible.
This is done by not recording the next writable address in the last session's
lead-in,
so that in the next time the recorder attempts to write, it has no way
of knowing where to begin writing. Only finalize CDs if you are sure that
you will not be appending new backup versions to it.
This technology helps prevent bad burns and CD/DVD creation errors,
including buffer underrun and trackwriter errors. This option might not
be supported by all CD/DVD drives.
A Buffer Underrun occurs when the PC cannot deliver data fast enough
to the drive's buffer. If the drive's buffer empties because of the lack
of data, the laser will turn off. The resulting gap on the media usually
renders a CD-R disc unusable"
The BURN-Proof feature is effective only for Buffer Under Run errors.
Therefore this feature does not cover the following cases
Power outage or power disconnection.
Malfunction or abnormality in PC / Application
software.
Impact on the drives or inferior condition of
the media.
If the CD contains more than one session, the most recent session is
automatically imported so that it could be updated with the new data.
Each time data is written to a CD/DVD disk a table of contents is written
at the end of the session in order to make the disk readable. This procedure
is called session closing; data can still be appended to the disk after
a session is closed.
Genie Backup Manager will by default import previous sessions on the
inserted disc before writing to it so as not to lose existing data.
Disabling this feature causes GBM to write a new table of contents that
does not refer to previously written data on the disc, rendering that
data hidden and inaccessible, but it will not free the space occupied
by it.
If a file with the same name as the backup file already exists on the
CD, GBM will rename the new file by appending a trailing number, that
is incremented by one for each new version of the file that is added.
This option prevents accidental overwriting of previous backup jobs
stored on the CD/DVD in case a file with a similar file name already exists
on it.
When backup to optical media is performed, eject the last disk in the
media set to alert user that backup is finished.