I have a Powerbook with a CD burner and I have access to an iMac with a Superdrive. I'd like to backup my disk (or at least my user folder) to DVD-Rs. One catch: I can't install any software on the iMac. There's enough space on the iMac disk that I could fit my whole user folder there and just burn via the Finder. But that will force me to fineagle with messing around with splitting the contents of folders between discs, or having odd bunches of stuff stored on discs together.
Is there some simple solution I'm missing? All I really want is a snapshot of my hard disk as a just-in-case before I move across the country. That way, if my Powerbook gets dropped or otherwise made incapacitated, I have all my research (and music and photos) in a fairly safe, long-ish term, medium.
So: what's the best technique for backing up 45 gigs to some optical media?
Is there some simple solution I'm missing? All I really want is a snapshot of my hard disk as a just-in-case before I move across the country. That way, if my Powerbook gets dropped or otherwise made incapacitated, I have all my research (and music and photos) in a fairly safe, long-ish term, medium.
So: what's the best technique for backing up 45 gigs to some optical media?
