Zipping a single directory directly to media is a breeze, but zipping files in multiple subdirectories right to a CD/DVD is a bit more complicate. You have to go into the first level directory and, keeping *.* in the select file field, click "Add with wild cards." Given these issues, you may be better off using version 10 to zip your files and then your favorite burning application (or Windows XP itself) to burn them to disc.
Automating Zipping
For automation, version 10 ships with a set of predefined zip jobs as a part of the Job Wizard, including zipping your desktop, your e-mail (in Outlook, for a default installation), the My Documents folder and Windows Favorites. These are available from the WinZip menu bar itself. Creating further Zip jobs is also easy. From the Job menu, select create and name the job. After that, it is a six-stage process, and in the sixth stage, you have the option to schedule the job to run regularly and whether or not to FTP the resulting Zip file to a remote server. If you choose to do so, you have to provide the FTP destination, user name and password. This lets mobile users in a small business setup, who may not have advanced backup software, back up important user files to a remote server. But don't mistake WinZip 10 for a full-fledged PC backup tool. It can't zip up files that are in use, nor can it write to media like tape.
WinZip 10 also allows for flexibility in backup jobs. You can define a full backup, an update with newer copies, a differential backup, an incremental backup or a custom backup, making version 10 good enough for almost any data backup activity. Adding further flexibility to zip jobs is the ability to append the current date, time, and so on, to prevent overwriting, and to place the file in a similarly named subdirectory. Jobs can also be written to a user's standard directories, such as My Documents or My Music, making enterprise-wide deployment of zip jobs easy. As the version 10 help files point out, the utility does not have the flexibility of Windows scheduler, and for more complex scheduling, the zip job file can be passed on to Windows Scheduler.
Also of interest is the Favorite Zip folder, which looks like an attempt to implement a variation of a hard disk search, ala Google Desktop Search. This feature collects all Zip files from across your folders into one list, but it's still in its infancy and not much use in its current form.
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