WinRescue will back up to a CD, but certain things must be done first.

 

WinRescue will now back up directly to CD/R, CD/WR, DVD/R, and DVD/RAM, if you have a drive that supports writing to these disks.

There are certain limits to backing up directly to these.  If doing so in Uncompressed mode, filenames and directory names longer than 127 letters cannot be backed up and will be skipped.  WinRescue will notify you of any long filenames skipped and list them in the longfn.ini file.

Compressed mode keeps the long filenames, but it does not put the index of the files in the Backup file on the first disk (if spanning to more than one CD).  This means that during restore, you will need to start with the last CD with the spanned Backup file on it.  These problems are not existent when using DirectCD or PacketCD (see following paragraph).

Another way to back up to a CD is using PacketCD or DirectCD.  One of these programs usually comes with your CD/RW drive.  These programs will format the CD/R  or CD/RW so that it can have files copied directly to it, without going through your CD/RW drive software.  To use these make sure that the Use CD Packet Format checkbox on the Misc tab of Backup Properties is checked.  The problem of using DirectCD and PacketCD is that it takes a long time to format a CD and DirectCD often does not work properly.

When WinRescue detects the end of the CD, it will prompt you for a new CD.