Cannot burn a DVD for backup

I have completed a Erase & Install on the beast here. Now I tried to do a "clean backup" and am unable to burn a DVD. The following is the message:
The operation could not be completed because one or more of the required items cannot be found (Error code -43).
Could not open the data forl of "<unable to get file path>" (-43)
There it is. None of my research has helped. Would appreciate any expertise on the matter. Thanks.

As far as the backup, I was dragging my User folder
to the DVD, then selecting "Burn". It ran with it for
a while, then the error messages as listed before.
That's causing the error. There are files in your user folder (disk burning logs, preferences, caches, mail, et.) that are changing. Dragging files to a burn folder creates aliases to the files. When burning or verifying, if the original file (target of the alias) has moved, changed, or been deleted, you can get the errors you are seeing. Try burning all the folders except "Library" and see if you get the error.

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