CD-DVD Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.23, by Dr. Herong Yang
Archiving Files on CD - Compress with WinRAR
This section describes a tutorial on how to compress files with WinRAR to archive them on a data CD.
If you have a lots of personal files on your computer system, you should consider to archive or backup them to a CD to avoid any losses if something happen to your computer.
One easy way to backup your files is to copy the folder where your files are located to a CD. But this could lead to problems like:
A better way of archiving your personal files to a CD is compress all directories and files into a single archive file with WinRAR. Then copy the single archive file to the CD. The advantages are obvious:
Here is what I did compress all of my personal files into 3 archive files to be copied to a data CD. My personal files are under the 5 folders: \herong\file2002, \herong\file2003, ..., \herong\file2006.
1. Create a work directory C:\archive.
2. Run the following commands in a command window:
C:\>cd \herong C:\herong>mkdir \archive C:\herong>WinRAR a -afrar -r \archive\file2002.rar file2002\*.* (Using the 8-3 file name format to avoid restoring problems. (WinRAR progress window shows up. (The compression process takes a couple of minutes. C:\herong>WinRAR a -afrar -r \archive\file2003.rar file2003\*.* ... C:\herong>WinRAR a -afrar -r \archive\file2006.rar file2006\*.* C:\herong>copy \progra~1\winrar\WinRAR.exe \archive\WinRAR.exe 1 file(s) copied. (I want to put a copy WinRAR.exe on the CD too. C:\herong>dir \archive <DIR> . <DIR> .. 10,577,076 file2002.rar 113,907,373 file2003.rar 121,605,487 file2004.rar 129,867,837 file2005.rar 333,239,038 file2006.rar 915,968 WinRAR.exe 6 File(s) 710,112,779 bytes 2 Dir(s) 21,970,386,944 bytes free
I got 6 archive files with 710,112,779 bytes / 1024 / 1024 = 678 MB. It perfectly fits on one CD-R (data CD).
Table of Contents
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players
Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format
►Archiving Files on CD - Compress with WinRAR
Creating ISO 9660 Image with FinalBurner
Checking ISO 9660 Image with FinalBurner
Burning ISO 9660 Image to CD with FinalBurner
Validating the Finished Data CD
DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format
TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs
IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool
vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files
mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files