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Title: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 10:58:26 am
Anyone help please.
I have always backed George up daily to floppy.
My floppy drive has buggered up so I just been and bought some CDRW discs.
I have backed up all my leaflet templates etc to the cd so there are no probs there.
The cd still has about 680mb spare.
When I try to backup George it says the selected drive doesnt have enough space.
Jees it only needs 250kb .
Help ???
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: P @ F on September 29, 2006, 11:10:42 am
I might be getting the wrong end of the stick here , being a PC gimp , but i am sure i heard you could not do this with George !

 I am probably wrong again !

 Rich P @ F
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 11:13:03 am
Hope youre wrong. :o
On the screen where you backup it does give the choice of A: C: or D: drives. ???
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: P @ F on September 29, 2006, 11:18:42 am
OOPS , ignore me then , i am that gimp !
If it gives you the option to backup then you must be able to , im off to stand in the corner with my special hat with D on it !

 Rich   P @ F
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: john tomkins on September 29, 2006, 11:43:15 am
I haven't got George yet so dont know definately but if you can back up to floppy then you ought to be able to back up to CD.

You also dont need to get CDRW discs as plain CDR discs will do as long as you set as "Multisession" in the options (Nero) you can then just add and add till the disc is full.
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: mattstanley on September 29, 2006, 12:34:04 pm
Hi Petski2
Yor best bet is to pay for the internet backup service from George - only about £12 per year and worth every penny.
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: Simply Clean Windows on September 29, 2006, 02:50:54 pm
internet backup,£50 for a lifetime, lost all my data the other week,lucky for me i had internet backup. ; ;D
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 07:57:11 pm
Iv emailed Paul but he hasnt replied to me for a few months. ???
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: George Systems on September 29, 2006, 08:09:41 pm
Hi Pete

Your eMail arrived today at 19:13 - it's not really months is it...

Paul
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 08:15:53 pm
Didnt mean todays Paul,I have emailed you 3 times in the last 6 months and recieved no replies.
Its not a dig maybe you just didnt get them.
Besides thats not a very proffesional response,no answer to the question and a sarcastic comment. ::)
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: George Systems on September 29, 2006, 08:31:05 pm
Hi Pete

You have eMailed me 16 times - first time was May 2004 and the last was May 2005.

I always answer my eMails - I obviously didn't receive yours.

Sorry - I'm just back from the pub - I didn't mean to offend you...
 

Paul
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 08:32:37 pm
Any chance of an answer. ::)
Just back from pub ya jammy sod. ;D
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: George Systems on September 29, 2006, 08:51:22 pm
Hi Pete

I'm in no condition to get back to you - I will be with you in the morning.

Paul
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: EasyClean on September 29, 2006, 09:39:56 pm
Don't knock 'George', Paul does a good job trying to answer all emails and solving other peoples problems. I was grateful to Paul for helping me once when I desperately needed it! You have to go a long way to beat 'George and the support help that's offered!
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: geefree on September 29, 2006, 09:43:47 pm
unless he had one too many lol, in that case the last place to be is on a forum lol.. ;D.. have we all been there? :D  na  ;)
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: reah on September 29, 2006, 09:53:11 pm
Hey
It does not matter if you back up on cdr or cdrw as one can be written over cdrw, the other can not cdr.
Just make sure you get the right disks to record on.
The ones your pc reads thats plus or minus not all cd or dvd roms read the same disks.
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 09:53:31 pm
Easyclean,please read posts correctly before making comments. ::)
I didnt knock George (or Paul).
I simply asked a question to solve a problem I had.
I then mentioned that I hadnt recieved replies from the last 3 emails but also pointed out that maybe he hadnt recieved them.
Or maybe you just came in from the pub as well.LOL  ;D
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 09:57:21 pm
Reah,I obviously didnt explain correctly.
I am a trained programmer so I know a lot about computers.
Whether I have a cdr or a cdrw in the drive makes no difference.
The backup works fine with floppy or hard disk.
All other programs on my pc save files to the same cd without any problems.
Therefore the drive or the disc arent a problem.
It is some setting in George.
Thanks
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: EasyClean on September 29, 2006, 10:23:45 pm
Easyclean,please read posts correctly before making comments. ::)
I didnt knock George (or Paul).
I simply asked a question to solve a problem I had.
I then mentioned that I hadnt recieved replies from the last 3 emails but also pointed out that maybe he hadnt recieved them.
Or maybe you just came in from the pub as well.LOL  ;D
Forgive me, I'm feeling very under the weather and I haven't got my thinking cap on today-hooray tomorrow is Saturday and I'll be glad of the rest!
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 10:31:55 pm
No probs mate. ;)
We all have those days.
Funnily enough Iv had one today trying to back up my work. :P
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: geefree on September 29, 2006, 11:28:08 pm
our lass is a programmer pete... she watches all the soaps ;D
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 29, 2006, 11:36:08 pm
Strewth Gazza your jokes better improve before you come round next week  ;D
Anyway did you hear the one about.................. ;)
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: George Systems on September 30, 2006, 07:28:23 am
Hi Pete

I just looked at the source code and it looks fine. It compares the amount of space needed for the backup with the amount of free space reported by Windows.

Looks like your CD driver is misreporting the amount of free space. There's not much I can do about that...

Why not use our Internet Backup system?

Paul
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: stuart howes on September 30, 2006, 08:30:32 am
i drag my desk top icon to sd card like the one in cams and satnavs
i have a sd card icon on my desktop screen and just drag and drop the george icon straight on the sd card icon and it is all on    plus get the internet back up
ps the man at george seems to be very helpful i have no probs at all

we all have to go out and have fun some times ;)
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: reah on September 30, 2006, 08:36:43 am

Reah,I obviously didnt explain correctly.
I am a trained programmer so I know a lot about computers.

Surely computer proggraming is better money than window cleaning.
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 30, 2006, 09:40:14 am

Reah

Nope. ::)
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: petski2 on September 30, 2006, 09:43:24 am
Paul,if thats the case how could it be that every other program on the pc reads the correct amount of space on the cd.
Ah well may go for internet backup.
Thanks for the help.
Hope the hangovers not too severe. :o
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: dave0123 on September 30, 2006, 11:42:11 am
why dont you just buy a memory stick for about £10.00? or something much better than a cd or anything like that even floppy! or the internet backup or both ;D

Dave
Title: Re: Backing George to CD
Post by: Alistair@AWC on September 30, 2006, 12:01:22 pm
I have an internet based email account ie one that I can access from anywhere such as hotmail and I just attach my daily backup to an email and email it to myself then store it in a folder.

Always accessible it doesnt matter if your computer is stolen or your house burns to the ground  ;)

Regards

Alistair