i have scanned in many documents and find the largest file is 250k saved in jpg format. i usually scan at 300 dpi and in b/w. color scanning is very expensive bytewise. a cd would hold 700,000/250 = almost 3000 such documents. dvd burners are now less that 100$ and a 4.7 gig single density dvd will hold ~ 7 CDs. please condider an external USB hard drive before burning CDs or DVDs. A 200gig external USB drive runs about $150 and is mush more dependable than CD or DVD. I have a lot of CD and DVDs that are unreadable. My externat USB is always readable. Look on eBay - they are the best way to go. P.S. leave them unplugged unless you are actively backing up or restoring. Run XCOPY /? in a DOS window to simplify backing up. I use the following to back up periodically:
:
: this backs up d to the usb external drive
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set budrive=h:\home
:
set logfile=z_usb_bu-2-H.log
:
:
echo \i386\ >_nocopy.txt
echo \$VAULT$.AVG\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \_Restore\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \Recycled\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \System Volume Information\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \RECYCLER\ >>_nocopy.txt
:echo \ghost\ >>_nocopy.txt
:
echo --------------- start >> %logfile%
date /t >> %logfile%
time /t >> %logfile%
xcopy D:\*.* %budrive%\DBU\ /E /D /C /F /H /R /Y /EXCLUDE:_nocopy.txt
date /t >> %logfile%
time /t >> %logfile%
echo --------------- done >> %logfile%
exit
: this backs up d to the usb external drive
:
set budrive=h:\home
:
set logfile=z_usb_bu-2-H.log
:
:
echo \i386\ >_nocopy.txt
echo \$VAULT$.AVG\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \_Restore\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \Recycled\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \System Volume Information\ >>_nocopy.txt
echo \RECYCLER\ >>_nocopy.txt
:echo \ghost\ >>_nocopy.txt
:
echo --------------- start >> %logfile%
date /t >> %logfile%
time /t >> %logfile%
xcopy D:\*.* %budrive%\DBU\ /E /D /C /F /H /R /Y /EXCLUDE:_nocopy.txt
date /t >> %logfile%
time /t >> %logfile%
echo --------------- done >> %logfile%
exit
if you need help, please ask.
Dave
"B. Kimberlin (Quadius)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have read that several individuals scan in their documents in order to conserve space and allow for better retrieval. I have been wanting to do something similar. In fact, it is almost imperative that I get many documents stand in the event I have to evacuate due to a catastrophic weather occurrence. The problem I am having is that each document which I scan is extremely large and difficult to store. For instance, I scanned in a very simple contract (two pages) and it took up 2MB worth of space. My question is does anyone know how to scan in a document so that it does not take up an inordinate amount of space. The primary reason I am asking is because I like to keep these documents on CDs for easy transportation in case of a disaster. FYI, I have been using Adobe Acrobat to scan in documents. I appreciate any feedback.
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