MrPix Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 Hi, What a fab piece of software! I have a BD-RE and have searched to find the answer, but no luck. I noticed on one post that LUK has stated something to the effect of "you only format a BD-RE once and after that the data is over written and that it is all handled automatically". I use the command line as a small part of a batch script that runs each night, but have a question or 2. 1. I use the /ERASE tag in the batch script as seen below. Do I need it? 2. If the /ERASE command is run each time on the same disc, will it 'automatically' ignore of format it? C:\progra~1\imgburn\imgburn.exe /NOIMAGEDETAILS /MODE build /BUILDMODE device /ERASE /ROOTFOLDER yes /SRC "F:\Daily Backup Folder\" /DEST "e:" /LOG "f:\backup_logs\DailyBackup_[DATETIME].log" /FILESYSTEM "ISO9660 + Joliet" /VOLUMELABEL "DailyBackup" /INCLUDEARCHIVEFILESONLY yes /CLEARARCHIVEATTRIBUTE yes /START /EJECT no /CLOSE Thanks, MrPix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 What does the ReadMe.txt file say about the /ERASE switch? That might answer your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPix Posted August 11, 2009 Author Share Posted August 11, 2009 (edited) What does the ReadMe.txt file say about the /ERASE switch? That might answer your question. Thanks, I must admit that although I was pretty clear on the rest of the readme and that I had the script worked out soley from that, this is one thing that I could not get my head around as the explanation was unforgiving. I guess I should have mentioned this in my early post to avoid you getting on your high horse , my apologies for putting you in that position. /ERASE Used to automatically erase / format / overwrite media. My query was really trying to understand whether the second time the daily disc was used (e.g. Monday's disc)... on next Monday.... would the 4 hour erase/Sector wipe session occur again... or does it overwrite the data without that. I understand it does 'it' automatically, I'm just trying to factor the window required after the initial format/sector wipe the first time the disc is used and I'm afraid the readme was less than helpful in aiding my understanding and also whether I needed to use anyother switch after the initial first run on each disc such as /OVERWRITE. I wasn't being as stupid as you try to make out. I appreciate you writing this great bit of software regardless of your misguided assumption that I have not bothered to RTFM! Thanks again.... MrPix Edited August 11, 2009 by MrPix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 I wasn't on my high horse at all! I thought the /erase switch just supressed the prompt to format/erase/overwrite the disc... nothing more, nothing less. (I don't have the file to hand - I'm on holiday!) So it will do whatever the program think needs doing automatically and without prompting you. So if the disc is new it'll format it, otherwise it'll just overwrite. (For BD-RE media anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPix Posted August 11, 2009 Author Share Posted August 11, 2009 I wasn't on my high horse at all! I thought the /erase switch just supressed the prompt to format/erase/overwrite the disc... nothing more, nothing less. (I don't have the file to hand - I'm on holiday!) So it will do whatever the program think needs doing automatically and without prompting you. So if the disc is new it'll format it, otherwise it'll just overwrite. (For BD-RE media anyway) Thanks for the clarification LUK, just what I was after. Cheers again Enjoy your holiday and thanks for taking the time to reply. MrPix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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