James Bucanek wrote:It's a great idea. I do something similar myself, occasionally making a copy of my important archives to a second hard disk.

There's nothing stopping you from splitting an archive across multiple CDs/DVDs. This could be accomplished via the built-in command-line tools, and I believe there are several free and commercial GUI applications that will do this too. For instance, Toast 8 has an automatic disc spanning feature.

Should you need to restore from your discs, just reassemble the archive and recover the files.

It would be nice to have a secondary archive stored on DVDs. It would make for easy offsite storage. The difficulty would be keeping it current. Certainly, Toast could split the archive among multiple DVDs. But one would have to start over each time you wanted to add to the DVD archive. This would lead to a proliferation of DVDs being used. It would be a drag to have to burn the full set of DVDs each time you wanted to create a complete offsite backup. This is one thing Retrospect handles fairly elegantly -- DVDs can be added to as if they are big floppies. This is the only thing that has kept me from abandoning Retrospect.

I can't think of a good way to implement this in QRecall, but it would be a nice feature.