Disc spanning
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Disc spanning is a feature of
Disc spanning works well on CD media in many applications, but spanning on DVD media fails often. This lack of reliable DVD data disc spanning is odd, as disc spanning was used extensively on older 3.5" and 5.25" floppy discs. Most users[who?] assume every operating system can perform disc spanning on any media as a built in function; this is incorrect.
Some disc spanning schemes include a small program to reassemble the data set into the same structure it had on the source machine. This program could be written to the first disc only, or to every disc in the set.
The use of disc spanning will in most cases make your files unreadable to the file-system. Therefore, you are bounded to use the same program later on to restore the data. Many users don't want to be bound to such solutions and use "Simple disc spanning" instead.
Simple disc spanning is a solution that groups the files into any media grouped based on size. There is one drawback with this system. Files that are bigger than the target media will not be burnt to the drive. It is simple but powerful and a simple calculation would be "How many CD/DVD/BD/HD DVDs does this bunch of files need?".
The simple grouping can be displayed like this
Disc1 -- (99%) [4,479MiB]
Directory
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+--- Dir1
+--- File1
Disc2 -- (98%) [4,468MiB]
Directory
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+--- Dir2
+--- File2
Disc3 -- (45%) [2,130MiB]
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+--- Dir3
etc...
Name | Description | Licence | Website |
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PrepareForBurning | Currently in beta for dividing large directories into multiple smaller directories ready for burning. | Open-source | https://sourceforge.net/projects/prepareforburn/ |
SizeMe | Installation wizard based and the program checks for updates on startup (optional) | Freeware | https://web.archive.org/web/20051228104936/http://lars.werner.no/sizeme/ |
Burn to the Brim | Installation wizard and open source project. | Open-source | http://bttb.sourceforge.net/ |
CDBurnerXP | Free | https://cdburnerxp.se/fr/ | |
DVDSpan | Tool for spanning large amounts of data between disks | Shareware | https://hcidesign.com/dvdspan/ |
Burnaware | Full-featured burning software to create CD, DVD and Blu-ray of all types, including M-Disc. | Free | http://www.burnaware.com/ |
See also
- Spanned volume