Back up vs. burn

[coody]

What is the difference between back up and burn DVD? Are they same or different?

[orsetto]

The same AND different. In forum lingo, they are used interchangeably as referring to the same thing: duplicating a disc bit-for-bit so you can have a "safety" copy in case the original gets damaged. Technically speaking, "backup" specifically refers to the the *act* of making the duplicate disc or to the duplicate disc itself. "Burn" refers to the laser recording the data to the disc, or sometimes afterward as an evaluation of quality or errors: "was it a good burn?" But we get slangy, so sometimes you'll hear both "backup" and "burn" used as nouns describing the disc or verbs describing its creation.

[Supreme2k]

Yeah, burn is specifically the transference of data to the DVD.

Backup is (as mentioned) the process, whether it be rip (dvd-5) then burn, rip-compress/reencode-burn, or rip-reauthor-burn. Even saving to your hard drive (iso, divx, etc.) is also known as backup.

[coody]

From your answers, it seems the final result is the same, getting a copy, right? BTW, why is Supreme2k banned though he answered not bad?

[lordsmurf]

Haha.... no, that's his avatar (image under his name)>