backing up final ripped bin/cue files to CD-R

[schydog]

Ok, so here's the dilemna. I rip a movie and burn it onto a CD-R. I'm using 80 min/700mb CD-Rs. The .bin file is over 800 mb. When I burn it to my CD-R after it's emulated as an actual DVD disk it fits all the nessessary files on the CD-R and plays perfect. I want to backup the actual .bin/.cue files on 1 single CD-R if possible so for future reference if I wanted to burn it again all I would have to do is pop in my CD-R, emulate it as a an actual DVD and burn. So far all I've figured out is to zip both files together, split them down the middle creating two seperate .zip files, and then saving them to two seperate CD-Rs. This not only takes more CD-Rs, but a lot more time if I ever want burn it again because I have to copy all files from both disks onto my harddrive and then unzip. I know there's such a thing as overburning, but I don't see why I should have to if the .bin/.cue files can fit onto my CD-R after emulated as an actual DVD. Any solutions?

[UltimateDBZ]

Why in the world would you want to backup the bin/cue files? Why couldn't you just do a direct cd copy 1:1 of the SVCD to another CD if you wanted to burn it again? There's no need to keep the image files.

[LeonMcNichol]

*heh* I agree, there is also means of copying the disc to cue/bin or other image formats that can be emulated and/or burned to the disc. Not to mention, you can get CRC errors when you zip/rar something like that.

[Labersack]

I agree with the two posters before me, I can see no real reason to backup the bin/cue.
If you really want to do it, you have to use 2 CDs, because in SVCD-mode there are less 'error correction bits' and for this reason on a 700MB CD-R fits 700MB data but ~800MB SVCD-Data. If you want to burn the bin/cue this is no SVCD-data but 'common data', so it can not fit.

This was an very simple explanation, if you want to know the details and technical background, just do a search in google, there are many datailed explanations to the different data-modes in the net.

[ux-3]

Use CD-R 90 or Cd-99. That should fit.

[JFerguson]

Hasn't it been documented here before that because SVCDs are burned in mode 2 (with little or no error correction), that it becomes difficult to produce perfect copies on each successive generation?

That may be his logic...