PSE 9 back-up problem.

I bought PSE 9 late last year and when prompted I did a full back-up, which was successful; it comprised six DVDs in the end. With one disc, a message
came up saying something like, "Problem with writer; download most recent drivers from manufacturer".  I put in another disc, though, and the problem did not
occur again.  Recently I was again prompted to back up my photos so I tried to do an incremental back-up.  With older versions of PSE, I used to put in the
last disc of the previous back-up so that it could work out where to begin from but when I was prompted to do this, a message popped up saying something
like, "Disc not recognised."  Any help out there please?
TIA, Thomas

Thomas,
Personally, I use an external hard disk - I find it much easier (and quicker) than using CD/DVDs. It also has the advantage that you can start it off, go and have a meal and not have to keep swapping DVDs.
The cost of external drives is so low these days, that I tend to have two and back up to them alternatively so that I should always have two backups - even external disks can fail. Going back to the old days when I worked on computers, we recommended three sets of backups - Gradfather, Father, Son. The main reason for having at least two is that something could always go wrong (power cut?) during a backup which corrupts the master version and the backup. Having a second backup means that you increase your chances of recovery.
The other thing I do is always do a full back up then you have a cleaner restore in the event of a failure. Whether you use an incremental backup is really dependent on how often and how much things change.
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