Is there a utility to separate a folder into cd sized chunks?

I need a piece of software that will take a folder with 20+Gig of data in it and move the files into folders that are 700 meg or 4.5 gig in size while maintaining the folder heiarchy. I know Roxio can do something similar but I do not have a copy of it and I think it requires special software to extract the files from the cd's once you are done. I need this because I routinely have customers that want all their data backedup to CD or DVD but they have a lot of data and it sucks to have to chunk it up manually.

This might work:

http://www.ntius.com/default.asp?p=cdmaker/cdmaker_main

I used it to span cd's a long time ago.

Do you know if it requires the use of a separate program to get the data off the cd's after they are burned? I could not find any info about that on their site.

Nero backitup, ghost, winzip even !? - loads of stuff can do this .. very often you might need an appropriate boot disk to get you going before any restore, but its mostly painless, some stuff won't do 'bits' only 'whole' - but mostly you can choose ..

I know about ghost and winzip. I will try nero's back-it-up and see if that is what I need. I do not want the end user to have to bother loading a program to extract the data. This is for people who want me to backup all their data to CD and format their HD and install a new OS so using ghost would be less than ideal in this situation. I was going to use winrar to make a spanned set of archives but that can be a hassle for both the end user and myself.

Winrar

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Originally Posted by NooNoo

Winrar

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I second that. Better compression than winzip and option to add record recovery data in case of damaged archives.

He wants it to write him some cdr's or DVD's !! all in one operation ;) !! sure you can create the spanned images with winrar (or whatever) ready to burn with 'whatever' but that's why I suggested nero back-it-up ;) & thats why he wants to look at that

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I will try nero's back-it-up and see if that is what I need

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, I'm pressuming he know wants suggestions in that vien ?

Something that can also produce a bootable cdr/dvd set .. ?

(I think that's what he wants anyway :))

I think I need to explain what I am looking for a bit better. A data recovery company I worked for has a utility that will take a folder that has the clients recovered data in it and it would move the files into separate folders of a specified size so all I had to do was open whatever burning program and drag and drop the folders over to the cd compilation one at a time. Basically if folder "X" contained 2.1 gig of data I could tell the program to make it fit on CD-R's and it would create folder "X1", "X2", "X3" and they would each contain 700 meg of data. It did not have to chop the individual files up and was intelegent enough to optimize the chunking process to reduce the ammount of media used. Unfortunately I was an honest employee and didn't steel that neet little proggie so that is why I was wonderig if anyone had heard of anything like it. I know you are all thinking "why doesn't the idiot just use winrar or some other burning program to do this?" and the answer is that I do not want to have to deal with my end users (which are people who barely know how to turn their system on) asking me how to extract their data.

do you remember the name of that program ?

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Originally Posted by natcom

do you remember the name of that program ?

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It was a proprietary program written by one of the companys developers called "fss".

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Originally Posted by ironwill99

It was a proprietary program written by one of the companys developers called "fss".

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you will need to contact the "developer" to get it then. i used to write stuff when i worked for a "company" and would have been "overjoyed" if someone had asked to use some piece of software...naturally, for a fee of course

Would this be what you are looking for:

http://redeyedmonster.co.uk/sorted.php

Oh, I found something else:

http://www.wolfiesden.com/downloads/images/sizeem.asp

Wow, I even found the windows directory printer I've been looking for!

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

Another vote for winrar. For gravy you could par it too and still have data if you lose a disk.

winrar and you can set it to make self extracting folders :thumbs:

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Originally Posted by arch0nmyc0n

Would this be what you are looking for:

http://redeyedmonster.co.uk/sorted.php

Oh, I found something else:

http://www.wolfiesden.com/downloads/images/sizeem.asp

Wow, I even found the windows directory printer I've been looking for!

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

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Thanks! Sorted is almost perfect for my needs. Too bad it only handles 32000 files at this time but it is good enough for now. Thanks again!

I thought the guy was asking for something where he doesn't have to explain to the customer how to retrieve the data?