Falling Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 Like say i have a Database that i want to backup using autoit. The Database is on Computer A. At 3:00 am every night i want the script to copy the Database on Computer A and place it on a writable CD-ROM if one is detected in the CD-ROM Drive. Is it possible or not? I wrote up somthing that calculated the size of the CDROM and compares to size of the database to make sure there was enough room. If there was enough room i tried to write to it. But unfortunatly it always gave me an error saying that it could not fit. \ ...i lost the file when my Hardrive crashed a week ago, I'll try to write it up again. It did not work though,-- I came to the conclusion then that maybe it was just not possible to send an automated command to write somthing to your CD-ROM. Thanks for any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
this-is-me Posted August 24, 2004 Share Posted August 24, 2004 (edited) You can only write directly to cdrom if you have a program like roxio directcd or nero incd running on the computer you are using. It is the same thing if you try to save a document from something like notepad directly to cd. Notepad will throw an error up saying that it is not possible. Edited August 24, 2004 by this-is-me Who else would I be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzetabi Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 What about using MakeIso and BurnCD external programs? They are easy to use and totally command line (I am pretty sure they are included in WinXP installation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugi Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 What about using MakeIso and BurnCD external programs? They are easy to use and totally command line (I am pretty sure they are included in WinXP installation). <{POST_SNAPBACK}>M:\>burncd Command or file not found cdburn is part of the Ressource Kit for XP but you still need something to create an image. mkisofs (I've seen some win32 ports) comes to my mind for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzetabi Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 So...http://gosh.msfnhosting.com/Files/cdimage.exeCDImage allows you to make the ISO from command linehttp://gosh.msfnhosting.com/Files/aio/CDBURN.EXEhttp://gosh.msfnhosting.com/Files/aio/DVDBURN.EXECD/DVDBurn allows you to burn the ISO in using your CD/DVD-BurnerI think this programs are already in WinXP but.. If I am wrong just download them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digetal Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 hey, ezzetabi keep those ideas comming! to most people here thats thinking outside-the-box. Combined with other valuable resources Autoit can do some remarkable things. I'm going to make a backup script using those two command line progs : cdimage and cd burn Thnks for the good info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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