![]() While Toast seems capable of continuing a burn in the case of a bad CD or DVD, it is incapable of doing so when the original data is bad in some way.And, in addition to the time spent retrying and troubleshooting the burn, we wasted an ungodly number of DVDs.Īs I see it, there are really two points of failure here: All tolled, it took us three days and we never got a complete disc set of our data. But we took numerous stabs at this multi-disc burn, actually. ![]() I've left out a lot of the little things we tried to get this data burned to DVD with Toast 7, for brevity's sake and because I've forgotten a great deal of them. I had no choice but to cancel the burn and give up, three coasters later, mind you. I even tried deleting the suspect files and proceeding with the burn, but Toast always insisted that the file was unreadable and kept asking for disc after disc. But in our case it was the data on the hard drive that was bad, and from this there was no recovery. Just give Toast a new DVD and be on your way. This is good: if one of your DVDs is bad, you can recover. After playing around, we discovered that Toast will, on such a failure, attempt to continue with the burn. But it seemed to work reasonably well, until we got to that magic bad file again. It was a difficult process as there were thousands of files, again, in deeply nested folders, and Toast had scattered this data across the set. Next we tried looking at the catalog created by Toast to see if we could figure out what had actually gotten burned and what hadn't, and then start a new burn at the point where the original had failed. Once quit, Toast had no recollection of where it was in the burn. ![]() We tried saving the Toast file at the point of failure to see if we could pick up where we left off at a later point in time, but no. This was an archive, after all, and we wanted to make sure that we got it right. So we corrected permissions and tried again, starting from scratch. We assumed it was probably a one-time error, or perhaps a permissions problem. There was little information as to why this was happening. The error message cited an inability to read/write data from a particular file on the hard drive. They were duly impressed until, on disc 8 of a 15 disc set, the burn failed. I handed the data off to a couple assistants and told them to use the new Toast, and pointed out how easy it would be. So I hurriedly ran out and bought my copy (or, actually, got my boss to buy my copy) of Toast 7 as its new disc spanning feature promised to make short work of the lengthy process. Within this 60 GB data store there were numerous seriously nested folders - we're talkin' folders upon folders upon folders - so creating 4.2 GB chunks for burning to DVD was going to be a real pain. Well, I should say, "Toast 7 disc spanning is essentially useless to me." Or maybe I should just say, "Toast 7 disc spanning is a big letdown." Why? Because the error handling is piss poor.Ĭase in point: I recently had the need to burn 60 GB of data to DVD for archival purposes.
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