As far as safety, they are both about the same. However, a DVD stores much more data.
Yes, as long as that computer has a CD or DVD writer and software.
Back up your files to a CD or DVD at least once a week
Many people often ask why DVD's are better at storing files or data than a CD for backup. Reasons being that a DVD has a greater storage capacity therefore you will benifit more from using the DVD as storage rather than a CD.
Computer backup means backing up data from the computer to a USB/external HD/CD/DVD etc. Computer Backup in process will mean a backup is taking place and is in process for backing up data.
FH DVD Rip N' Burn is the best and affordable way to backup your dvd's to your hard drive or cd's
Any backup is better than none, but tape is considered to be old technology. Cheaper to copy files to a DVD or CD. Files can from there be recovered to other computers as most have a DVD or CD drive for reading. Getting a file from a disk would probably be a lot quicker than tape too.
It is looking for a storage medium to write the backup information to, so there must be a CD/DVD drive with a writable disc in it before the program is started.
If by disk based backup one means making a back up into a CD or DVD, then the advantage would be that even if the hard drive fails, one can still restore the backup version from the disk.
Windows Backup will not allow a direct backup to a CD - instead you will have to save the backup file somewhere else and then you can copy it to a CD.
With the program known as Handy Backup, one can back up his or her important files onto a CD or DVD-RW. Handy Backup is available for a few operating systems, including Windows.
No! The eye is only formatted to TT2 CD device (CD's) U can play CD's in a DVD device.
, burn documents onto a CD/DVD, that's so easy, you just need to use a right program to help you, you can use RZ Free DVD Burner, its free and easy to use, it can directly burn any files or folders onto any DVD/CD disc, you can burn your documents onto a DVD or CD as data disc for backup, hope it could help you, but you need to keep the total size of the documents below the capacity of the DVD disc...hope this infors can help you!