Backups

I thought the new DVD RW drives that could burn double layer disks would be great so I bought one not long after they came out. I must of spent 129 or so on it. Since then I have bought 2 more. Each one was cheaper then the last one. Now they have them for less then 50. As you know the double layer DVD RW media is not cheap so I have not burned many of those. The other day I saw some double layer DVD+R or was it –R disk for 30 USD for 25 disks so the prices have came down a lot. But the new drives all burn and write everything. What I did with the last one is install it in 5.25 inch USB 2.0 / Firewire box. The box costs about 50 USD I think. You can put a CD, DVD, or a 3.5 inch hard drive I it. Anything that connects to a PATA connector will work. When I connect to a Win XP box my DVD-RW shows up as a DVD-RW but will only burn CDs but will read both CDs and DVDs. That is because Win XP only burns CDs natively. After I installed Nero I could burn both. This DVD box will not boot from a CD or DVD on older computers but on newer motherboard there are some BIOS setting that will allow you to boot from it. The reason I did this was to make back-ups of computers that did not have a burner. Do you know of any really light weight DVD burning software? I am going to check the open source stuff and see if I can find a basic one. Nero and Roxio are both great but really take up a lot of room and make lots of registry changes. I don’t want to do that if I am backing up someone else’s computer.